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Howes Farm Cottage Bury Road Stradishall Newmarket Suffolk CB8 8PS

DC/25/1609/P3RPAPrior Approval Agricul. to flex. commercApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 8 December 2025

Council decision: Prior approval required & grantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Prior approval application under Part 3 (Class R) of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 - Change of use of two agricultural buildings to commercial use (class E and B8)

Received
14 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Clare, Hundon And Kedington
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated14 Oct
  3. Consult.4 Nov
  4. Target9 Dec
  5. Decided8 Dec

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Howes Farm Cottage Bury Road Stradishall Newmarket Suffolk CB8 8PS. West Suffolk has handled 399 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 95 applications across Clare, Hundon And Kedington. We hold 1,572 applications in total for the CB8 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
CB8 8PS
Application type
Prior Approval Agricul. to flex. commerc
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stradishall

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 October 2025
Consultation expiry
2 December 2025
Consultation start
14 October 2025
Consultation end
4 November 2025
Target decision date
9 December 2025
Permission expires
8 December 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Bidwells
Agent address
Bidwells Bidwell House Trumpington Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 9LD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
11 November 2025
Site notice end
2 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14301671
Documents
15
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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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