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Highbury House 57 Westgate Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1QG

DC/24/0948/LBLB Consent to alter/extendApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 11 October 2024

Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for listed building consent - installation of solar panels

Received
5 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbeygate
Agent
1 Stop Design and Build
  1. Received5 Jul
  2. Validated5 Jul
  3. Consult.26 Sep
  4. Target31 Aug
  5. Decided11 Oct

Decided in 98 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a solar installation at Highbury House 57 Westgate Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1QG. West Suffolk has handled 6,990 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 6 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 has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 73 applications across Abbeygate. We hold 486 applications in total for the IP33 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
IP33 1QG
Application type
LB Consent to alter/extend
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bury St Edmunds Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 July 2024
Consultation expiry
7 October 2024
Consultation start
5 September 2024
Consultation end
26 September 2024
Neighbour consultation end
26 September 2024
Target decision date
31 August 2024
Permission expires
11 October 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
1 Stop Design and Build
Agent address
1 Stop Design And Build 128 City Road London EC1V 2NX

Planning decision

Statutory period
57 days

Publicity

Last advertised
2 August 2024
Advertisement expiry
23 August 2024
Site notice start
16 September 2024
Site notice end
7 October 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13206454
Documents
45
Constraints
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bury St Edmunds Town Centre
  • Listed building: Grade II: Highbury HouseOn this site · +6 more
  • 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 (20)

flood storage 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.

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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© 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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