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Northgate High School Sidegate Lane West Ipswich Suffolk IP4 3DL

26/00164/FPCFull Planning Application by SCCApproved
Full

Approved on 16 March 2026

Proposal

Application for consideration by Suffolk County Council: for Variation of Condition 1 (Expiry date) for planning permission SCC\0048\16IP - Retention of double modular classroom building for use by high school for a further five years.

Received
6 March 2026
Ward
RUSHMERE
  1. Received6 Mar
  2. Validated6 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target27 Mar
  5. Decided16 Mar

Decided in 10 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Northgate High School Sidegate Lane West Ipswich Suffolk IP4 3DL. Ipswich has handled 73 applications of this type. This one was decided in 10 days, 5 weeks quicker than Ipswich's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 11 applications across RUSHMERE. 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 3DL
Application type
Full Planning Application by SCC
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Northeast Area

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 March 2026
Target decision date
27 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
6

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: 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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