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Hawthorn Barn Dunwich Road Blythburgh Halesworth Suffolk IP19 9LT

DC/25/2789/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 14 January 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)8 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from agricultural land to domestic garden and build a natural swimming pool.

Received
15 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
9
Ward
Wrentham, Wangford And Westleton
  1. Received15 Jul
  2. Validated24 Jul
  3. Consult.30 Dec
  4. Target18 Sep
  5. Decided14 Jan

Decided in 174 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Hawthorn Barn Dunwich Road Blythburgh Halesworth Suffolk IP19 9LT. East Suffolk has handled 5,532 applications of this type. This one was decided in 183 days, 18 weeks longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Blythburgh conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Wrentham, Wangford And Westleton. We hold 922 applications in total for the IP19 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
IP19 9LT
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blythburgh

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 July 2025
Last date for comments
30 December 2025
Target decision date
18 September 2025
Permission expires
14 January 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
29 Consort Avenue Rackheath Norwich Norfolk NR13 6FQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
44

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: BlythburghPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Hawthorn FarmhouseOn or next to this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Suffolk Coast & Heaths
  • Heritage coast: Suffolk

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 (18)

flood storage areas, 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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© 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. 2026
    22 May

    Discharge of condition No. 6 of DC/25/2789/FUL

    PendingDischarge of conditionsDC/26/1910/DRC
  2. 2025
    15 Jul

    Change of use from agricultural land to domestic garden and build a natural swimming pool.

    This applicationApprovedFullDC/25/2789/FUL

Source: East Suffolk

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