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The Old Gym Blackthorpe Rougham Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP30 9HZ

SE/10/0174Certificate of Lawful Existing Use/DevRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 21 June 2010

Council decision: Refuse application

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Existing Use - Continued use of land for stationing of caravans and other items for residential use

Received
11 February 2010
Ward
Rougham
  1. Received11 Feb
  2. Validated11 Feb
  3. Consult.4 Mar
  4. Target8 Apr
  5. Decided21 Jun

Decided in 130 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Old Gym Blackthorpe Rougham Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP30 9HZ. West Suffolk has handled 282 applications of this type. This one was decided in 130 days, 11 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Rougham. We hold 1,122 applications in total for the IP30 postcode area.

95% of amendment 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
IP30 9HZ
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Existing Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rushbrooke With Rougham

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 February 2010
Consultation expiry
4 March 2010
Consultation start
11 February 2010
Consultation end
4 March 2010
Target decision date
8 April 2010

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Ridgers Barn Bunny Lane Eridge Nr Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 9HA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
4
Constraints
2

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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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