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56 College Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1NH

DC/24/1718/HHHouseholder ApplicationApproved
Householder

Approved on 29 January 2025

Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Householder planning application - removal of single door and replacement with french doors to side elevation

Received
25 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbeygate
  1. Received25 Nov
  2. Validated25 Nov
  3. Consult.28 Dec
  4. Target23 Jan
  5. Decided29 Jan

Decided in 65 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 56 College Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1NH. West Suffolk has handled 2,535 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days 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. We hold 486 applications in total for the IP33 postcode area.

94% of full 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
IP33 1NH
Application type
Householder Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bury St Edmunds Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 November 2024
Consultation expiry
28 January 2025
Consultation start
5 December 2024
Consultation end
28 December 2024
Neighbour consultation end
28 December 2024
Target decision date
23 January 2025
Permission expires
29 January 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Street Farm Beck Street Hepworth Diss Norfolk IP22 2PN

Planning decision

Statutory period
59 days

Publicity

Last advertised
13 December 2024
Advertisement expiry
6 January 2025
Site notice start
7 January 2025
Site notice end
28 January 2025

Additional information

Documents
12
Constraints
16

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: 8-11, College StreetOn or next to this site
  • 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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