15 Princes Street Ipswich Suffolk IP1 1PH
Proposal
Change of use from Use Class E (offices) to Class F (community meeting/reading room, exhibition hall and shop) and replacement of window with aluminium double glazed entrance door.
- Received
- 24 August 2026
- Decided
- 20 August 2026 · Application Permitted (conditional)
- Council
- Ipswich Borough Council
- Ward
- Trent Bridge
- ReceivedSubmitted24 Aug
- ValidatedValidated23 Apr
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date19 Oct
- DecidedDecided20 Aug
Decided in 119 days (council typically 42)
This is a planning application for a change of use at 15 Princes Street Ipswich Suffolk IP1 1PH. Ipswich has handled 71 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 43 days. It was submitted on 24 August 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 90 applications across ALEXANDRA. We hold 253 applications in total for the IP1 postcode area.
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Planning constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Central Conservation Area
- Article 4 direction: Article 4 Direction for Small HMOs
- Brownfield land register: 31 Princes Street IP1 1PURegister site at or near this address
- 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 (20)
flood storage 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 and heritage coasts.
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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 2026-10-09. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.
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