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The Barn Bowbeck Bardwell Suffolk

DC/17/0724/PMBPAPrior Approval Agriculture to DwellingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 March 2018

Council decision: Prior approval required & grantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Approval Application under Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment and Consequential Provisions) (England) Order 2015- (i) Change of use of agricultural building to dwellinghouse (Class C3) to create 1no. dwelling (ii) associated operational development

Received
6 April 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bardwell
  1. Received6 Apr
  2. Validated10 Apr
  3. Consult.1 May
  4. Target5 Jun
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 330 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at The Barn Bowbeck Bardwell Suffolk. West Suffolk has handled 399 applications of this type. This one was decided in 334 days, 40 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 51 applications across Bardwell.

82% of outline applications at West Suffolk Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Prior Approval Agriculture to Dwelling
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bardwell

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 April 2017
Consultation expiry
16 May 2017
Consultation start
10 April 2017
Consultation end
1 May 2017
Target decision date
5 June 2017
Permission expires
6 March 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
West Fen Frithville Boston Lincolnshire PE22 7EX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
25 April 2017
Site notice end
16 May 2017

Additional information

Documents
12
Constraints
5

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)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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

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© 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.

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Source: West Suffolk

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