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Barn Adjacent The Croft Bowbeck Bardwell Suffolk

DC/19/1998/CLPCertificate of Lawful Proposed Use/DevRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 12 December 2019

Council decision: Refuse applicationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for Lawful Development Certificate for Proposed Use or Development - Change of use of agricultural building to dwellinghouses (Class C3) to create 4 no. dwellings under Part 3 Class Q of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015.

Received
1 October 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bardwell
  1. Received1 Oct
  2. Validated17 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Dec
  5. Decided12 Dec

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Barn Adjacent The Croft Bowbeck Bardwell Suffolk. West Suffolk has handled 399 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 2 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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
Certificate of Lawful Proposed Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bardwell

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 October 2019
Target decision date
12 December 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
West Fen Frithville Boston PE22 7EX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
13
Constraints
6

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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© 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.

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Source: West Suffolk

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