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Charmans Farm School Road Risby Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP28 6RQ

DC/23/0254/P3QPAPrior Approval Agriculture to dwellingsWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 13 April 2023

Council decision: Withdrawn / abandoned

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Prior Approval Application under Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment and Consequential Provisions) (England) Order 2015 - a. Change of use of agricultural building to dwellinghouse (Class C3) to create five dwellings b. associated operational development

Received
15 February 2023
Ward
Risby
  1. Received15 Feb
  2. Validated15 Feb
  3. Consult.16 Mar
  4. Target12 Apr
  5. Decided13 Apr

Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Charmans Farm School Road Risby Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP28 6RQ. West Suffolk has handled 399 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 57 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 46 applications across Risby. We hold 1,144 applications in total for the IP28 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
IP28 6RQ
Application type
Prior Approval Agriculture to dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Risby

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 February 2023
Consultation expiry
20 April 2023
Consultation start
23 February 2023
Consultation end
16 March 2023
Target decision date
12 April 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Barton Willmore, now Stantec
Agent address
Barton Willmore, now Stantec St Andrews House St Andrews Road Cambridge CB4 1WB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
28 March 2023
Site notice end
20 April 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11938546
Documents
16
Constraints
13

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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