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DC/26/0076/FUL Approved
Commercial & major works

Proposal

The erection of beach huts and associated wooden platforms located on the beach between the shelter and Spa Pavilion, an area where beach huts were previously located. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
9 Jan 2026
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Validated
21 Jan 2026
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Committee
24 Mar 2026
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Approved
27 Mar 2026

Approved on 27 Mar 2026 · Last checked 12 Jul 2026

Planning committee

Decided by East Suffolk Planning Committee South on 24 Mar 2026.

Approved unanimously

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the huts would support tourism, heritage and accessibility, with coastal and flood risks addressed by conditions.
  • The Town Council supported the proposal, highways and drainage raised no objections, and no third-party responses were received.
  • Members unanimously approved the application after hearing from the applicant and confirming that 14 previously displaced huts had been rehoused.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, consultation, committee discussion, vote and decision. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of East Suffolk's committee minutes of 24 Mar 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Shotley Gate to Felixstowe Ferry across the site
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site; the route and its margin are protected.
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. A site survey can differ.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Registered park or garden 32 m away: Cliff Gardens and Town Hall Garden
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Conservation area 7 m away: Felixstowe
The edge of the area; work outside it can still affect its setting.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Also on the record
1 listed building within 150 m.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 27 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
East Suffolk
Postcode
IP11 2AG
Received
9 Jan 2026
Validated
21 Jan 2026
Decision
Application Permitted
Decision date
27 Mar 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 65 days from validation, 8 days slower than East Suffolk's median of 57 for commercial and major works. Approved, as 95% of commercial and major works here are.

50%decided within 8 weeks
95%approved
59decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by East Suffolk in the last twelve months, from validation. East Suffolk decision record →

Historical activity at this location

25 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2023
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2023
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2022 Approved
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2021
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2021
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Replacement of patio doors with french doors
DC/18/1301/FUL
2018 Approved
1 Cardinals Court Queens Road Felixstowe Suffolk IP11 7PG
Replacement of patio doors with french doors
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2016 Approved
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2023
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2018 Approved
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Discharge of Conditions 6 and 7 of Planning Permission DC/15/3589/FUL
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East Suffolk
Planning Authority Score
5.3/10
Average
#129 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

East Suffolk ranks #183 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
East Suffolk decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #81 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #76 of 296
60%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #183 of 296
42%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #162 of 296
80%
Minor dwellings approved
212 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
19 decided (10+ homes)
81%
Change of use approved
139 decided
1,965
Total decisions
158 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings