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2 Hungate Court Beccles Suffolk

DC/25/4662/P3MAPrior Approval Commercial to DwellingRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 30 January 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Notification (Commercial to Dwelling) - Conversion of existing commercial building into 2no. dwellings

Received
2 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Beccles And Worlingham
Agent
Claxton Planning Services
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated2 Dec
  3. Consult.6 Jan
  4. Target27 Jan
  5. Decided30 Jan

Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 2 Hungate Court Beccles Suffolk. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Beccles conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across Beccles And Worlingham.

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
Prior Approval Commercial to Dwelling
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Beccles

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 December 2025
Last date for comments
6 January 2026
Target decision date
27 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Claxton Planning Services
Agent address
59 Abbeygate Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1LB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Beccles
  • Listed building: Grade II: St DenysOn or next to this site
  • 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 (20)

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, 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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© 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.

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Source: East Suffolk

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