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Unit 2 Church Place Retail Park Church Street Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 1EP

DC/25/3635/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 21 November 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from betting shop (sui generis) to hot food takeaway (sui generis), installation of extract and ventilation equipment and minor external alterations.

Received
22 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Saxmundham
Agent
Pegasus Planning Group Ltd
  1. Received22 Sep
  2. Validated30 Sep
  3. Consult.10 Nov
  4. Target25 Nov
  5. Decided21 Nov

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Unit 2 Church Place Retail Park Church Street Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 1EP. East Suffolk has handled 5,532 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Saxmundham conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Saxmundham. We hold 1,357 applications in total for the IP17 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
IP17 1EP
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Saxmundham

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 September 2025
Last date for comments
10 November 2025
Target decision date
25 November 2025
Permission expires
21 November 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Pegasus Planning Group Ltd
Architect profile
PEGASUS PLANNING GROUP LIMITED
Agent address
First Floor South Wing Equinox North Great Park Road Almondsbury Bristol BS32 4QL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
26

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Saxmundham

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.

Source: East Suffolk

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