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Land At Chediston Hall B1123 Chediston Halesworth Suffolk IP19 0AW

DC/25/4143/SCOScoping OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 9 December 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Scoping opinion following the screening direction associated with DC/25/2021/FUL for the construction of solar photovoltaic farm of up to 40MW and associated ancillary infrastructure including; underground cabling, new access tracks, substation buildings, storage container, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, landscaping, temporary construction compounds and all on-site ancillary grid infrastructure and associated site works.

Received
27 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Kelsale And Yoxford
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated27 Oct
  3. Consult.26 Nov
  4. Target1 Dec
  5. Decided9 Dec

Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Land At Chediston Hall B1123 Chediston Halesworth Suffolk IP19 0AW. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days quicker than East Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Kelsale And Yoxford. 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 0AW
Application type
Scoping Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Chediston

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 October 2025
Last date for comments
26 November 2025
Target decision date
1 December 2025
Permission expires
9 December 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Neo Environmental
Agent address
Spaces 8th Floor The Programme Building The Pithay Bristol BS1 2NB

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Documents
9

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 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

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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