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21 Church Street Southwold Suffolk IP18 6JG

DC/25/1864/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 15 July 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion and alterations to storage workshop and Class E building, including the construction of a connecting extension to create a 3-bedroom dwellinghouse.

Received
7 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Southwold
Agent
LPS Architecture
  1. Received7 May
  2. Validated7 May
  3. Consult.20 Jun
  4. Target2 Jul
  5. Decided15 Jul

Decided in 69 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a new dwelling at 21 Church Street Southwold Suffolk IP18 6JG. East Suffolk has handled 5,532 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Southwold conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Southwold. We hold 548 applications in total for the IP18 postcode area.

93% of full applications at East Suffolk Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
IP18 6JG
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Southwold

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 May 2025
Last date for comments
20 June 2025
Target decision date
2 July 2025
Permission expires
15 July 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
LPS Architecture
Agent address
18 Langham Barns Colchester Essex CO4 5ZS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Southwold
  • National Landscape (AONB): Suffolk Coast & Heaths
  • Heritage coast: Suffolk
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    3 Nov

    Variation of Condition No. 2 of DC/25/1864/FUL

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DC/25/4237/VOC
  2. 2025
    7 May

    Conversion and alterations to storage workshop and Class E building, including the construction of a…

    This applicationApprovedFullDC/25/1864/FUL

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