Former Stanton Community Primary School Bury Lane Stanton Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 2DE
Approved on 28 March 2025
Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Outline Planning Application (Access to be considered)- a. seven dwellings and b. access, parking and new ramped pedestrian access for Bluebells family hub
- Received
- 1 September 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Stanton
- Agent
- Thurlow Architects Ltd
- ReceivedReceived1 Sep
- ValidatedValidated20 Sep
- Consult.Consultation2 Apr
- TargetTarget Date15 Nov
- DecidedDecided28 Mar
Decided in 555 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Former Stanton Community Primary School Bury Lane Stanton Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 2DE. West Suffolk has handled 399 applications of this type. This one was decided in 574 days, 74 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Stanton conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 45 applications across Stanton. 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 2DE
- Application type
- Outline Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Stanton
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 September 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 2 April 2025
- Consultation start
- 12 March 2025
- Consultation end
- 2 April 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 3 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 15 November 2023
- Permission expires
- 28 March 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Thurlow Architects Ltd
- Architect profile
- THURLOW ARCHITECTS LIMITED
- Agent address
- The Studio 61 Hardwick Lane Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 2RB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 29 September 2023
- Advertisement expiry
- 20 October 2023
- Site notice start
- 13 November 2023
- Site notice end
- 4 December 2023
Additional information
- Documents
- 55
- Constraints
- 8
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Stanton
- 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 (21)
flood storage 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.
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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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Associated applications
- 202511 Nov
Reserved matters application - submission of details under outline planning permission DC/23/1443/OUT
PendingReserved mattersRelatedDC/25/1780/RM - 20231 Sep
Outline Planning Application (Access to be considered)- a. seven dwellings and b. access, parking and new…
This applicationApprovedOutlineDC/23/1443/OUT
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