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Newmarket Community Hospital 56 Exning Road Newmarket Suffolk CB8 7JG

DC/26/0216/CLPCertificate of Lawful Proposed Use/DevWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 3 March 2026

Council decision: Withdrawn / abandoned

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for lawful development certificate for proposed use or development - installation of roof mounted solar PV panels and a solar inverter

Received
10 February 2026
Ward
Newmarket North
Agent
Lawson Planning Partnership Ltd
  1. Received10 Feb
  2. Validated10 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target7 Apr
  5. Decided3 Mar

Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Newmarket Community Hospital 56 Exning Road Newmarket Suffolk CB8 7JG. West Suffolk has handled 399 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 21 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There have been 7 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Newmarket North. 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 7JG
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Proposed Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Newmarket Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 February 2026
Target decision date
7 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Lawson Planning Partnership Ltd
Agent address
884 The Crescent Colchester Business Park Colchester CO4 9YQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14394284
Documents
6

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.

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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.

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Planning history at this site

7 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    2 Sep

    Application to discharge conditions 4 (CMP- PRECOMM), 5 (CEMP- PRECOMM) and 9 (CSWMP- PRECOMM) of application…

    PendingDischarge of conditionsDCON(A)/25/2037
  2. 2026
    28 Aug

    Planning application - variation of condition of 2 of DC/25/2037/FUL

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DC/26/1323/VAR
  3. 2026
    1 Jun

    Non-material amendment to DC/25/2037/FUL

    PendingNon-material amendmentNMA(A)/25/2037
  4. 2026
    3 Mar

    Prior approval application under Part 14 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)…

    PendingPrior Approval Part 14 Class J of GPDO14DC/26/0358/P14JPA
  5. 2025
    24 Dec

    Planning application - a. two-storey hospital building with roof mounted solar PV panels b. manifold building…

    PendingFull Planning ApplicationDC/25/2037/FUL
  6. 2025
    11 Nov

    Non material amendment to DC/21/1612/FUL

    RefusedNon-material amendmentNMA(B)/21/1612

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