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West Suffolk Hospital Hardwick Lane Bury St Edmunds Suffolk

DC/26/0647/RMReserved Matters ApprovalAwaiting decision
Discharge / amendments
Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Reserved Matters Application - Submission of details under DC/22/0593/HYB - the means of appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for new hospital (Class C2), including car parking, associated infrastructure, structural landscape buffer, temporary construction compound and demolition of existing hospital buildings

Received
23 April 2026
Decision due
23 July 2026
Ward
Southgate
  1. Received23 Apr
  2. Validated23 Apr
  3. Consult.1 Jun
  4. Target23 Jul
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at West Suffolk Hospital Hardwick Lane Bury St Edmunds Suffolk. West Suffolk has handled 399 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 23 April 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Southgate.

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

Application type
Reserved Matters Approval
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Bury St Edmunds Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 April 2026
Consultation expiry
2 June 2026
Consultation start
30 April 2026
Consultation end
1 June 2026
Neighbour consultation end
2 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Newsteer
Agent address
c/o HubHub 20 Farringdon Street London United Kingdom EC4A 4AB United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
8 May 2026
Advertisement expiry
29 May 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14838895
Documents
154

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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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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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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