Telephone Kiosk Westgate Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk
Refused on 9 April 2026
Council decision: ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Notfication under section 4 of the Communications act 2003 - removal of payphone
- Received
- 23 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Abbeygate
- ReceivedReceived23 Jan
- ValidatedValidated23 Jan
- Consult.Consultation23 Feb
- TargetTarget Date23 Apr
- DecidedDecided9 Apr
Decided in 76 days
About this application
This is a planning application at Telephone Kiosk Westgate Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk. West Suffolk has handled 6,984 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 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 are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 74 applications across Abbeygate.
Application details
- Application type
- Notification Section 4 Comms Act
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Bury St Edmunds Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 23 February 2026
- Consultation start
- 2 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 23 February 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 23 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 23 April 2026
- Permission expires
- 9 April 2031
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 90 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 6
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Bury St Edmunds Town Centre
- 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
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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