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Hectors Farm Elm Green Lane Bradfield St Clare Suffolk IP30 0BH

DC/26/0013/P3QPAPrior Approval Agriculture to dwellingsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 2 March 2026

Council decision: Prior approval required & grantedDelegated (officer decision)13 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior approval application under part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment and Consequential Provisions) (England) Order 2015 - change of use from agricultural building to create one dwelling (class C3)

Received
6 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rougham
  1. Received6 Jan
  2. Validated6 Jan
  3. Consult.29 Jan
  4. Target3 Mar
  5. Decided2 Mar

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Hectors Farm Elm Green Lane Bradfield St Clare Suffolk IP30 0BH. 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 has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Rougham. We hold 1,122 applications in total for the IP30 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
IP30 0BH
Application type
Prior Approval Agriculture to dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bradfield St. Clare

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 January 2026
Consultation expiry
13 February 2026
Consultation start
8 January 2026
Consultation end
29 January 2026
Target decision date
3 March 2026
Permission expires
2 March 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent
C B Mckenna
Agent address
Lawn Farm Upper Tye Gt Cornard Sudbury CO10 0QA

Planning decision

Case officer
Gregory McGarr
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
23 January 2026
Site notice end
13 February 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14599846
Documents
25
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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