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80-86 Hamilton Road And 47 Cobbold Road Felixstowe Suffolk IP11 7AD

DC/25/1865/P3MAPrior Approval Commercial to DwellingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 July 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Notification - Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3) - This Prior Approval application seeks the conversion of the first floorspace at the application site to create four self-contained residential units under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the GPDO 2015.

Received
7 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Eastern Felixstowe
Agent
Pegasus Group
  1. Received7 May
  2. Validated30 May
  3. Consult.8 Jul
  4. Target25 Jul
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 80-86 Hamilton Road And 47 Cobbold Road Felixstowe Suffolk IP11 7AD. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Felixstowe conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 51 applications across Eastern Felixstowe. We hold 674 applications in total for the IP11 postcode area.

87% of outline 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
IP11 7AD
Application type
Prior Approval Commercial to Dwelling
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Felixstowe

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 May 2025
Last date for comments
8 July 2025
Target decision date
25 July 2025
Permission expires
11 July 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Pegasus Group
Agent address
21 Ganton Street London W1F 9BN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Felixstowe
  • 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 (21)

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, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts 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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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

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

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    7 May

    Prior Notification - Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouses (Use…

    This applicationApprovedOutlineDC/25/1865/P3MA
  2. 2025
    7 May

    External building alterations, including fenestration amendments, and the erection of an external bicycle and…

    ApprovedFull ApplicationFiled alongsideDC/25/1866/FUL

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