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Hopton End Farm Church Road Market Weston Suffolk IP22 2NX

DC/22/1527/P3QPAPrior Approval Agriculture to dwellingsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 January 2023

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 - change of use from agricultural building to dwellinghouse (class C3) to create one dwelling

Received
30 August 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Barningham
Agent
Swann Edwards Architecture Limited
  1. Received30 Aug
  2. Validated30 Aug
  3. Consult.9 Jan
  4. Target25 Oct
  5. Decided20 Jan

Decided in 143 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Hopton End Farm Church Road Market Weston Suffolk IP22 2NX. West Suffolk has handled 399 applications of this type. This one was decided in 143 days, 12 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across Barningham. We hold 1,540 applications in total for the IP22 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
IP22 2NX
Application type
Prior Approval Agriculture to dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Market Weston

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 August 2022
Consultation expiry
16 January 2023
Consultation start
16 December 2022
Consultation end
9 January 2023
Target decision date
25 October 2022
Permission expires
20 January 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Swann Edwards Architecture Limited
Architect profile
SWANN EDWARDS ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
Agent address
Swann Edwards Architecture Fen Road Guyhirn Wisbech PE13 4AA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
23 December 2022
Site notice end
16 January 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11512513
Documents
20
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

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    8 Jun

    Application to discharge condition 10 (Bat Mitigation License) from DC/22/1527/P3QPA

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsDCON(A)/22/1527
  2. 2022
    30 Aug

    Prior Approval Application under Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)…

    This applicationApprovedOutlineDC/22/1527/P3QPA

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