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91 Out Westgate Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 3NX

DC/25/1225/CLPCertificate of Lawful Proposed Use/DevApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 September 2025

Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for lawful development certificate for proposed use or development - change of use from residential (use class C3) to HMO (use class C4) Internal refurbishment and modifications to add en-suite bathrooms

Received
4 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Westgate
Agent
Rees Pryer Architects
  1. Received4 Aug
  2. Validated4 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Sep
  5. Decided18 Sep

Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 91 Out Westgate Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 3NX. West Suffolk has handled 399 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than West Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 9 applications across Westgate. 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 3NX
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Proposed Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bury St Edmunds Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 August 2025
Target decision date
29 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Rees Pryer Architects
Architect profile
REES PRYER LIMITED
Agent address
Rees Pryer Architects The Studio Drinkstone Office Park Kempson Way Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP32 7AR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14213710
Documents
7
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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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