Saxmundham Fire Station, Seaman Avenue, Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17 1DZ
Approved on 15 July 2016
Council decision: App/CondsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Extension and remodelling of Saxmundham Fire Station to provide accommodation for the Police safer Neighbourhood Team and upgrade the existing accommodation anf facilities for the one call (Part time) Fire Station. External works to extend existing car park .
- Received
- 27 May 2016
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Suffolk County Council
- Ward
- Blything
- ReceivedReceived27 May
- ValidatedValidated3 Jun
- Consult.Consultation8 Jul
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided15 Jul
Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an extension at Saxmundham Fire Station, Seaman Avenue, Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17 1DZ. Suffolk has handled 126 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications 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 1DZ
- Application type
- Full Planning application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Saxmundham CP
- District
- East Suffolk (SC)
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 June 2016
- Consultation expiry
- 8 July 2016
- Consultation end
- 8 July 2016
Additional information
- Documents
- 10
Site constraints
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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Suffolk
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