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The Squirrels School Road Bedfield IP13 7EA

SCC/0120/23MS/LDCLawful Development CertificateApproved

Approved on 29 January 2024

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

Proposal

A Lawful Development Certificate is sought for the use of an existing dwelling house (C3) to be used as a solo children’s home (C2).

Received
20 December 2023
  1. Received20 Dec
  2. Validated11 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Jan

Decided in 18 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Squirrels School Road Bedfield IP13 7EA. Suffolk has handled 23 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 2 weeks quicker than Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,023 applications in total for the IP13 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
IP13 7EA
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bedfield
District
Mid Suffolk District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Gables Old Market Stables Thetford Norfolk IP24 2EN

Additional information

Documents
4

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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