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Lavender Barn Bowbeck Bardwell Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 1BA

DC/21/1805/CLECertificate of Lawful Existing Use/DevApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 22 December 2021

Council decision: Approve application

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for lawful development certificate for existing use or development - use of land as part of domestic garden

Received
6 September 2021
Ward
Bardwell
  1. Received6 Sep
  2. Validated6 Sep
  3. Consult.30 Sep
  4. Target1 Nov
  5. Decided22 Dec

Decided in 107 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Lavender Barn Bowbeck Bardwell Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 1BA. West Suffolk has handled 282 applications of this type. This one was decided in 107 days, 7 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 51 applications across Bardwell. We hold 1,715 applications in total for the IP31 postcode area.

95% of amendment 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 1BA
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Existing Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bardwell

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 September 2021
Consultation expiry
30 September 2021
Consultation start
9 September 2021
Consultation end
30 September 2021
Target decision date
1 November 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10138750
Documents
9
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, conservation areas, 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2008
    2 Oct

    Planning Application - Erection of victorian style greenhouse

    ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationSE/08/1407

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