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12A Britannia Road Ipswich Suffolk IP4 4PE

25/00814/P3JPAPrior Approval Commercial to DwellingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 26 January 2026

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for Prior Approval under Class MA for change of use from commercial use (Use Class E) to form a single residential dwelling (Use Class C3).

Received
14 November 2025
Ward
ST JOHNS
  1. Received14 Nov
  2. Validated17 Nov
  3. Consult.9 Dec
  4. Target12 Jan
  5. Decided26 Jan

Decided in 70 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 12A Britannia Road Ipswich Suffolk IP4 4PE. Ipswich has handled 26 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 4 weeks longer than Ipswich's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across ST JOHNS. We hold 187 applications in total for the IP4 postcode area.

100% of outline 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 4PE
Application type
Prior Approval Commercial to Dwelling
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Northeast Area

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 November 2025
Consultation expiry
16 December 2025
Consultation start
18 November 2025
Consultation end
9 December 2025
Neighbour consultation start
18 November 2025
Neighbour consultation end
16 December 2025
Target decision date
12 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
25 November 2025
Advertisement expiry
16 December 2025
Site notice start
25 November 2025
Site notice end
16 December 2025

Additional information

Documents
5

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: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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: Ipswich

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