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7 Angel Hill Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1UZ

DC/25/1207/P3CMAPrior Approval Commercial to DwellingWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 17 September 2025

Council decision: Withdrawn / abandonedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior approval application under Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 - change of use of roof space from commercial, business and service (class E) to one dwelling (class C3)

Received
30 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbeygate
Agent
Thurlow Architects
  1. Received30 Jul
  2. Validated30 Jul
  3. Consult.6 Sep
  4. Target24 Sep
  5. Decided17 Sep

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 7 Angel Hill Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1UZ. West Suffolk has handled 399 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 49 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Bury St Edmunds Town Centre conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.

82% of outline 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 1UZ
Application type
Prior Approval Commercial to Dwelling
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bury St Edmunds Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 July 2025
Consultation expiry
6 September 2025
Consultation start
15 August 2025
Consultation end
6 September 2025
Neighbour consultation end
27 August 2025
Target decision date
24 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Thurlow Architects
Architect profile
THURLOW ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
Thurlow Architects The Studio 61 Hardwick Lane Bury St. Edmunds IP33 2RB

Planning decision

Case officer
Tamara Benford-Brown
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
13 August 2025
Site notice end
4 September 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14213755
Documents
19
Constraints
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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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