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Lynton Farm Barn Thetford Road Ixworth Thorpe Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 1QP

DC/20/0611/P3QPAPrior Approval Agriculture to dwellingsWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 21 July 2020

Council decision: Withdrawn / abandoned

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 5 no. dwellings (ii) associated operational development.

Received
6 April 2020
Ward
Ixworth
  1. Received6 Apr
  2. Validated15 Apr
  3. Consult.16 Jul
  4. Target10 Jun
  5. Decided21 Jul

Decided in 97 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Lynton Farm Barn Thetford Road Ixworth Thorpe Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 1QP. West Suffolk has handled 399 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 106 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Ixworth. We hold 1,716 applications in total for the IP31 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
IP31 1QP
Application type
Prior Approval Agriculture to dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ixworth & Ixworth Thorpe

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 April 2020
Consultation expiry
16 July 2020
Consultation start
2 July 2020
Consultation end
16 July 2020
Target decision date
10 June 2020
Permission expires
21 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
42 Beatrice Avenue Felixstowe Suffolk IP11 9HB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
24 April 2020
Site notice end
15 May 2020

Additional information

Documents
20
Constraints
9

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)

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

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: West Suffolk

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