18-19 Guildhall Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1QD
Approved on 13 June 2025
Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Planning application - change of use from office (Class E) to dwelling (Class C3) (Amended plans received 10/4/25)
- Received
- 26 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Abbeygate
- Agent
- Evolution Town Planning Ltd
- ReceivedReceived26 Feb
- ValidatedValidated7 Mar
- Consult.Consultation16 May
- TargetTarget Date4 May
- DecidedDecided13 Jun
Decided in 98 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 18-19 Guildhall Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1QD. West Suffolk has handled 2,535 applications of this type. This one was decided in 107 days, 7 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. 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 1QD
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bury St Edmunds Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 March 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 17 May 2025
- Consultation start
- 2 May 2025
- Consultation end
- 16 May 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 17 May 2025
- Target decision date
- 4 May 2025
- Permission expires
- 13 June 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Evolution Town Planning Ltd
- Agent address
- Opus House Elm Farm Park Thurston Bury St Edmunds IP31 3SH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 58 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 14 March 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 4 April 2025
- Site notice start
- 4 April 2025
- Site notice end
- 27 April 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13601555
- Documents
- 28
- Constraints
- 16
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Bury St Edmunds Town Centre
- 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.
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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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Source: West Suffolk
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