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Land At Former St Felix School Fordham Road Newmarket Suffolk CB8 7SF

DCON(G)/23/0864Discharge of Condition(s)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 August 2025

Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to discharge conditions 8 (hard landscaping), 9 (landscape management plan) and 10 (details of earthworks) from application DC/23/0864/FUL

Received
4 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Newmarket North
  1. Received4 Mar
  2. Validated4 Mar
  3. Consult.8 Jul
  4. Target29 Apr
  5. Decided13 Aug

Decided in 162 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Land At Former St Felix School Fordham Road Newmarket Suffolk CB8 7SF. West Suffolk has handled 820 applications of this type. This one was decided in 162 days, 15 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. There have been 2 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.

99% of conditions 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 7SF
Application type
Discharge of Condition(s)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Newmarket Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 March 2025
Consultation expiry
8 July 2025
Consultation start
24 June 2025
Consultation end
8 July 2025
Target decision date
29 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Lovell Partnerships
Agent address
Lovell Partnerships Lakeside 500 Broadland Business Park Old Chapel Way Thorpe St Andrews Norwich Norfolk NR7 0WG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13821823
Documents
31

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: St Felix Middle School Site, NewmarketRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (21)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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