Gate House Cottage School Road Risby Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP28 6RQ
Approved on 16 July 2025
Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Householder planning application - a. dropped kerb b. removal of flint wall and replacement with shortened flint wall for vehicular access
- Received
- 24 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Risby
- ReceivedReceived24 Apr
- ValidatedValidated6 May
- Consult.Consultation6 Jun
- TargetTarget Date2 Jul
- DecidedDecided16 Jul
Decided in 71 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Gate House Cottage School Road Risby Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP28 6RQ. West Suffolk has handled 2,535 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 4 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Risby conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 7 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 45 applications across Risby. We hold 1,142 applications in total for the IP28 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
- IP28 6RQ
- Application type
- Householder Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Risby
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 7 June 2025
- Consultation start
- 15 May 2025
- Consultation end
- 6 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 30 May 2025
- Target decision date
- 2 July 2025
- Committee meeting
- 15 July 2025
- Permission expires
- 16 July 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Brown And Scarlett
- Architect profile
- BROWN AND SCARLETT LTD
- Agent address
- 1 Old Hall Barns Thurston Road Pakenham Suffolk IP31 2NG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 57 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 16 May 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 7 June 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 15
- Constraints
- 11
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Risby
- 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.
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Associated applications
- 202526 Aug
Application to discharge condition 7 (later approval of details) of DC/25/0701/HH
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsDCON(A)/25/0701 - 202524 Apr
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Planning history at this site
10 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20251 Sep
Application to discharge condition 3 (sample panel) of DC/25/1148/LB
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsDCON(A)/25/1148 - 202523 May
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ApprovedListed building consentDC/25/1148/LB - 202516 Jan
Application to discharge condition 6 (minor additions) of DC/23/1863/LB
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsDCON(C)/23/1863 - 202424 Dec
Application to discharge condition 3 (later approval of details) of application DC/23/1863/LB
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsDCON(B)/23/1863 - 20245 Dec
Application for listed building consent - a. internal alterations b. replacement windows and doors of…
ApprovedListed building consentDC/24/1799/LB - 202414 Nov
Planning application - variation of condition 2 of DC/23/1862/HH
ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DC/24/1664/VAR - 202410 Jun
Application to discharge of conditions 7 (sample panel), 8 (windows) and 9 (doors) of DC/23/1863/LB
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsDCON(A)/23/1863 - 202313 Nov
Householder planning application - a. replacement thatch roof to existing cottage b. replacement render to…
ApprovedHouseholderDC/23/1862/HH - 202313 Nov
Application for listed building consent - a. internal alterations b. replacement thatch roof to existing…
ApprovedListed building consentDC/23/1863/LB - 202216 Nov
Trees in a conservation area notification - a. one Sycamore (T2 on plan) remove lower subsiding branches up…
ApprovedWorks to trees in Conservation AreaDC/22/1990/TCA
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