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Benhall Water Recycling Centre, Aldecar Lane, Benhall, IP17 1HN

SCC/0017/26SC/DEMDemolition Prior NotificationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 10 March 2026

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to request if prior approval is required for the partial demolition of an existing single storey garage and changing room.

Received
9 February 2026
  1. Received9 Feb
  2. Validated13 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Mar

Decided in 25 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Benhall Water Recycling Centre, Aldecar Lane, Benhall, IP17 1HN. Suffolk has handled 9 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 4 weeks quicker than Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,357 applications in total for the IP17 postcode area.

100% of all applications at Suffolk County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
IP17 1HN
Application type
Demolition Prior Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Benhall
District
East Suffolk (SC)

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 February 2026

Additional information

Documents
13

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)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

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.

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: Suffolk

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