Fen House Sedge Fen Lakenheath Suffolk IP27 9LG
Approved on 30 October 2025
Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Planning application - construction of agricultural building
- Received
- 7 May 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Lakenheath
- ReceivedReceived7 May
- ValidatedValidated29 May
- Consult.Consultation19 Jun
- TargetTarget Date24 Jul
- DecidedDecided30 Oct
Decided in 154 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Fen House Sedge Fen Lakenheath Suffolk IP27 9LG. West Suffolk has handled 2,535 applications of this type. This one was decided in 176 days, 17 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 38 applications across Lakenheath. We hold 151 applications in total for the IP27 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
- IP27 9LG
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lakenheath
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 8 July 2025
- Consultation start
- 29 May 2025
- Consultation end
- 19 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 19 June 2025
- Target decision date
- 24 July 2025
- Permission expires
- 30 October 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- 2 the drawing board
- Agent address
- 2 The Drawing Board 55 Melbourne Drive Mildenhall IP28 7BP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 17 June 2025
- Site notice end
- 8 July 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13774896
- Documents
- 15
- Constraints
- 12
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High 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.
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Source: West Suffolk
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