40-42 Chapel Street Exning Suffolk CB8 7HB
Approved on 28 September 2017
Council decision: Prior approval required & grantedDelegated (officer decision)
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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- Change of use from Office (Class B1(a)) to Dwellinghouse(s) (Class C3) to create 2no. dwellings
- Received
- 6 July 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Exning
- ReceivedReceived6 Jul
- ValidatedValidated6 Jul
- Consult.Consultation3 Aug
- TargetTarget Date31 Aug
- DecidedDecided28 Sep
Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at 40-42 Chapel Street Exning Suffolk CB8 7HB. West Suffolk has handled 399 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 4 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Exning conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Exning. We hold 1,572 applications in total for the CB8 postcode area.
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
- Postcode
- CB8 7HB
- Application type
- Prior Approval Offices to Dwellings
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Exning
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 July 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 9 August 2017
- Consultation start
- 13 July 2017
- Consultation end
- 3 August 2017
- Target decision date
- 31 August 2017
- Permission expires
- 28 September 2022
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 4A Market Hill Framlingham Suffolk IP13 9BH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 19 July 2017
- Site notice end
- 9 August 2017
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
- Constraints
- 12
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Exning
- 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 (21)
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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: West Suffolk
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