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Land To The West Of Benacre Pumping Station South Of Kessingland The Street Benacre Suffolk

DC/25/3535/CLPLawful Development Certificate(Proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 24 November 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Use (Proposed) - The construction of a new flood embankment across the Lothingland valley to manage tidal flooding at the A12 and manage flood risk to property upstream. A new pumping station will be constructed through the new Lothingland embankment to manage fluvial flooding. The construction of a new Kessingland embankment with a new small pumping station to manage surface water flooding. The construction of a new intertidal channel The decommissioning of the existing pumping station and relocation of rock armour.

Received
16 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Wrentham, Wangford And Westleton
  1. Received16 Sep
  2. Validated17 Sep
  3. Consult.23 Oct
  4. Target12 Nov
  5. Decided24 Nov

Decided in 68 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land To The West Of Benacre Pumping Station South Of Kessingland The Street Benacre Suffolk. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Wrentham, Wangford And Westleton.

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

Application type
Lawful Development Certificate(Proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Benacre

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 September 2025
Last date for comments
23 October 2025
Target decision date
12 November 2025
Permission expires
24 November 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • National Landscape (AONB): Suffolk Coast & Heaths

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, 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, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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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