40 - 42 Chapel Street Exning
Approved on 8 April 2013
Council decision: Approve with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Resubmission of F/2012/0064/COU - change of use of first floor from class B1 (offices) to class B1 and 1 no. residential unit in the alternative
- Received
- 29 January 2013
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Exning
- ReceivedReceived29 Jan
- ValidatedValidated6 Feb
- Consult.Consultation27 Feb
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided8 Apr
Decided in 61 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 40 - 42 Chapel Street Exning. West Suffolk has handled 2,535 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Exning conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Exning.
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
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Exning
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 February 2013
- Consultation expiry
- 15 March 2013
- Consultation start
- 6 February 2013
- Consultation end
- 27 February 2013
- Committee meeting
- 8 April 2013
- Permission expires
- 8 April 2016
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- D H Barford & Co Howard House 17 Church Street St Neots Cambridgeshire PE19 2BU
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 22 February 2013
- Advertisement expiry
- 15 March 2013
- Site notice start
- 7 February 2013
- Site notice end
- 28 February 2013
Additional information
- Documents
- 12
- Constraints
- 5
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Exning
- 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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20176 Jul
Prior Approval Application under Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)…
ApprovedPrior Approval Offices to DwellingsDC/17/1400/P3JPA - 201311 Oct
Change of use of first floor from Class B1 (Offices) to Class C3 (Residential)
ApprovedPrior Approval Offices to DwellingsDC/13/0459/P3JPA - 201330 Jul
Change of use of ground floor from class B1 (offices) to class C3 (residential)
ApprovedPrior Approval Offices to DwellingsF/2013/0425/P3JPA
Source: West Suffolk
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