Old Custom House Key Street Ipswich Suffolk IP4 1BY
Withdrawn on 17 December 2025
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Proposal
Installation of a Digital Binocular unit on the eastern side of the Custom House on Common Quay to deliver site-specific AR and VR heritage interpretation as part of the Digital Ipswich cultural programme.
- Received
- 29 October 2025
- Council
- Ipswich Borough Council
- Ward
- ALEXANDRA
- ReceivedReceived29 Oct
- ValidatedValidated21 Nov
- Consult.Consultation12 Dec
- TargetTarget Date16 Jan
- DecidedDecided17 Dec
Decided in 26 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Old Custom House Key Street Ipswich Suffolk IP4 1BY. Ipswich has handled 73 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 49 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 101 applications across ALEXANDRA. We hold 187 applications in total for the IP4 postcode area.
100% of full applications at Ipswich Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- IP4 1BY
- Application type
- Full Planning Application by IBC
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Central Area
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 24 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 21 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 12 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 3 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 24 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 16 January 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Urban Tech Creative The Enterprise Building University Of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 2 December 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 23 December 2025
- Site notice start
- 2 December 2025
- Site notice end
- 23 December 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 15
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Conservation area: Central Conservation Area+1 more
Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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.
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