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Cavenham Quarry, Marston's Pit, Cavenham Heath, Cavenham, Bury St. Edmunds, IP28 6SE

SCC/0061/25FH/SCREENScreening and ScopingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 21 May 2025

Council decision: Screening/Scoping

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

EIA Screening request for the installation and operation of a ground mounted solar array and associated infrastructure

Received
28 April 2025
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated28 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 May

Decided in 23 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Cavenham Quarry, Marston's Pit, Cavenham Heath, Cavenham, Bury St. Edmunds, IP28 6SE. Suffolk has handled 9 applications of this type. This one was decided in 23 days, 5 weeks quicker than Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,142 applications in total for the IP28 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
IP28 6SE
Application type
Screening and Scoping
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Cavenham CP
District
West Suffolk (FH)

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
6 Forbes Business Centre Kempson Way Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP32 7AR

Additional information

Documents
5

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)

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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