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12 Guildhall Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1PR

DC/25/1729/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 22 January 2026

Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Planning application - a. change of use and conversion of existing mixed use building to five dwellings and ground floor office space b. single storey rear extension

Received
3 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbeygate
  1. Received3 Nov
  2. Validated24 Nov
  3. Consult.17 Dec
  4. Target22 Jan
  5. Decided22 Jan

Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a single storey rear extension at 12 Guildhall Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1PR. West Suffolk has handled 2,535 applications of this type. This one was decided in 80 days, 3 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. 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.

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 1PR
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bury St Edmunds Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 November 2025
Consultation expiry
28 December 2025
Consultation start
26 November 2025
Consultation end
17 December 2025
Neighbour consultation end
22 December 2025
Target decision date
22 January 2026
Permission expires
22 January 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
59 days

Publicity

Last advertised
5 December 2025
Advertisement expiry
28 December 2025
Site notice start
4 December 2025
Site notice end
27 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14454614
Documents
29
Constraints
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bury St Edmunds Town Centre
  • Listed building: Grade II: 11, Guildhall StreetOn or next to this site · +5 more
  • 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 (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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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    8 Jun

    Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) of DC/25/1729/FUL

    PendingVariation of conditions (s73)DC/26/0870/VAR
  2. 2025
    3 Nov

    Planning application - a. change of use and conversion of existing mixed use building to five dwellings and…

    This applicationApprovedFullDC/25/1729/FUL

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