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Highfield Farm Holton Road Wenhaston With Mells Hamlet Suffolk IP19 9DE

DC/25/2125/P3QPrior Approval Agriculture to DwellingsWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 17 July 2025

Council decision: Application WithdrawnApplication Withdrawn

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Approval - Proposed Change of Use of agricultural buildings to six dwellings, and for associated operational development, and associated documents

Received
28 May 2025
Decision level
Application Withdrawn
Public comments
7
Ward
Halesworth And Blything
  1. Received28 May
  2. Validated28 May
  3. Consult.7 Jul
  4. Target23 Jul
  5. Decided17 Jul

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Highfield Farm Holton Road Wenhaston With Mells Hamlet Suffolk IP19 9DE. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 50 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across Halesworth And Blything. We hold 922 applications in total for the IP19 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
IP19 9DE
Application type
Prior Approval Agriculture to Dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wenhaston

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 May 2025
Last date for comments
7 July 2025
Target decision date
23 July 2025
Permission expires
17 July 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Source: East Suffolk

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