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Plot 1 Old Shire Hall Honey Hill Bury St Edmunds Suffolk

DC/24/0665/VARVariation of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 31 July 2024

Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Planning application - a. variation of condition 2 to remove reference to plans 364-540 and SK-S-500 REV P1, b. variation of wording for condition 3; c. removal of condition 5 (photographic record) of DC/24/0094/LB

Received
15 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbeygate
Agent
Evolution Town Planning Ltd
  1. Received15 May
  2. Validated7 Jun
  3. Consult.8 Jul
  4. Target2 Aug
  5. Decided31 Jul

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Plot 1 Old Shire Hall Honey Hill Bury St Edmunds Suffolk. West Suffolk has handled 820 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Bury St Edmunds Town Centre conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 73 applications across Abbeygate.

99% of conditions 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

Application type
Variation of Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bury St Edmunds Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 June 2024
Consultation expiry
10 July 2024
Consultation start
10 June 2024
Consultation end
8 July 2024
Neighbour consultation end
1 July 2024
Target decision date
2 August 2024
Permission expires
31 July 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Evolution Town Planning Ltd
Agent address
Evolution Town Planning Ltd Opus House Elm Farm Park Thurston Bury St Edmunds IP31 3SH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
14 June 2024
Advertisement expiry
5 July 2024
Site notice start
19 June 2024
Site notice end
10 July 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13069103
Documents
12
Constraints
21

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 (18)

flood storage areas, green belt, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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

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© 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.

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