Grove House Livermere Road Great Barton Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 2SB
Approved on 15 May 2026
Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions
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Proposal
Householder planning application - construct water feature in front garden
- Received
- 2 March 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- The Fornhams And Great Barton
- ReceivedReceived2 Mar
- ValidatedValidated20 Mar
- Consult.Consultation18 Apr
- TargetTarget Date18 May
- DecidedDecided15 May
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Grove House Livermere Road Great Barton Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 2SB. West Suffolk has handled 2,535 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across The Fornhams And Great Barton. We hold 1,715 applications in total for the IP31 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
- IP31 2SB
- Application type
- Householder Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Great Barton
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 14 May 2026
- Consultation start
- 26 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 18 April 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 22 April 2026
- Target decision date
- 18 May 2026
- Permission expires
- 15 May 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Whymark & Moulton
- Agent address
- Gwelo Edgworth Road Sudbury CO10 2TG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 59 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 27 March 2026
- Advertisement expiry
- 19 April 2026
- Site notice start
- 22 April 2026
- Site notice end
- 14 May 2026
Additional information
- Documents
- 8
- Constraints
- 15
Site constraints
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
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Source: West Suffolk
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