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18 Tower Hill Beccles Suffolk NR34 9YN

DC/26/0211/CLELawful Development Certificate(Existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 22 April 2026

Council decision: Application Permitted

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Certificate of lawful Use (Existing) - Change of use from Class C3(a) (dwellinghouse) to Class C3(b) to allow the property to be used as a small-scale dwellinghouse with care. The property will operate in a domestic home environment. No external alterations are proposed and no material changes to the internal layout are required. Fire doors added.

Received
19 January 2026
Ward
Beccles And Worlingham
Agent
SES Kite Ltd
  1. Received19 Jan
  2. Validated23 Feb
  3. Consult.24 Mar
  4. Target20 Apr
  5. Decided22 Apr

Decided in 58 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 18 Tower Hill Beccles Suffolk NR34 9YN. East Suffolk has handled 512 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 5 weeks longer than East Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across Beccles And Worlingham. We hold 1,406 applications in total for the NR34 postcode area.

92% of amendment 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
NR34 9YN
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate(Existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Beccles

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 February 2026
Last date for comments
24 March 2026
Target decision date
20 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
SES Kite Ltd
Agent address
18 Tower Hill Beccles Suffolk NR34 9YN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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