1 Rous Road Newmarket Suffolk CB8 8DH
Approved on 29 November 2024
Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Prior approval application under Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 - change of use from class E (commercial, business and service) to class C3 (dwellinghouses) to form two dwellings
- Received
- 4 October 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Newmarket East
- Agent
- Suffolk Building Design Ltd
- ReceivedReceived4 Oct
- ValidatedValidated4 Oct
- Consult.Consultation29 Oct
- TargetTarget Date29 Nov
- DecidedDecided29 Nov
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at 1 Rous Road Newmarket Suffolk CB8 8DH. West Suffolk has handled 399 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Newmarket conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 29 applications across Newmarket East. We hold 1,572 applications in total for the CB8 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
- CB8 8DH
- Application type
- Prior Approval Commercial to Dwelling
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Newmarket Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 October 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 29 October 2024
- Consultation start
- 8 October 2024
- Consultation end
- 29 October 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 29 October 2024
- Target decision date
- 29 November 2024
- Permission expires
- 29 November 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Suffolk Building Design Ltd
- Architect profile
- SUFFOLK BUILDING DESIGN LTD
- Agent address
- Suffolk Building Design Ltd 11 East Street Sudbury CO10 2TP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13454718
- Documents
- 12
- Constraints
- 13
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Newmarket
- 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, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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Source: West Suffolk
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