56 West Road Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 3EN
Approved on 15 October 2025
Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Householder planning application - a. single storey rear extension (following demolition of existing extension) b. dormer to rear elevation c. alteration to existing access including dropped kerb
- Received
- 29 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Minden
- Agent
- Carlyon Architecture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived29 Apr
- ValidatedValidated13 May
- Consult.Consultation7 Oct
- TargetTarget Date9 Jul
- DecidedDecided15 Oct
Decided in 155 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for demolition at 56 West Road Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 3EN. West Suffolk has handled 2,535 applications of this type. This one was decided in 169 days, 16 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Minden. 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 3EN
- Application type
- Householder Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bury St Edmunds Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 8 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 16 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 7 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 8 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 9 July 2025
- Committee meeting
- 26 August 2025
- Permission expires
- 15 October 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Carlyon Architecture Ltd
- Architect profile
- CARLYON ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
- Agent address
- 64 Queens Road Bury St Edmunds IP33 3EW
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 57 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 11 June 2025
- Site notice end
- 2 July 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13977672
- Documents
- 33
- Constraints
- 5
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (22)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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
Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
© 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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