The National Grid (Bramford To Twinstead Reinforcement) Order 2024 Data via plota.co.uk

DC/26/00957 - Discharge of Requirement Decided
Utility infrastructure

Proposal

Notice of pre-commencement operations under Schedule 3, Requirement 3(1) Stages of the authorised development pursuant to The National Grid (Bramford to Twinstead Reinforcement) Order 2024 Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
5 Mar 2026
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Comment
16 Mar 2026
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Committee
21 Jul 2026

Comment on 16 Mar 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 2 Sept 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Babergh Mid Suffolk Planning Committee on 21 Jul 2026. Earlier deferred on 16 Jun 2026. The council has not yet issued its decision notice.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the scheme would improve the care home, add accommodation and parking, and cause no unacceptable harm.
  • Residents, the parish council and a ward councillor raised concerns about parking, traffic, drainage, overdevelopment and neighbouring amenity.
  • The committee approved the application subject to the officer’s report and update list.

Source: Plota analysis of Babergh Mid Suffolk's committee minutes, Babergh Mid Suffolk Planning Committee minutes, 21 July 2026 .

Documents

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Site constraints 5

Public footpath about 4 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Priority habitat: Deciduous woodland
A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.
Agricultural land, grade 2
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. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.
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.
Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats -NEX
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
6 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. 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
Babergh Mid Suffolk
Application type
Discharge of Requirement
Postcode
CO10 7NA
Received
5 Mar 2026
Validated
5 Mar 2026
Ward
Assington
Parish
Assington
Case officer
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Target decision
12 Mar 2026
Decision
Comment
Decision date
16 Mar 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 2 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
12 Mar 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2019 Approved
Court House Church Road Twinstead Essex CO10 7NA
Erection of cartlodge
19/01470/HH
2019 Approved
Court House Church Road Twinstead Essex CO10 7NA
Erection of cartlodge
19/01470/HH
2016 Approved
Land Adjacent Court House Church Road Twinstead Essex
Erection of three bedroom detached dwelling and detached double garage
16/00897/FUL
Babergh Mid Suffolk
Planning Authority Score
7.7/10
Good
#33 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Babergh Mid Suffolk is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #56 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
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Babergh Mid Suffolk decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
89%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #124 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #68 of 296
77%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #56 of 296
34%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #83 of 296
74%
Minor dwellings approved
160 decided (1-9 homes)
73%
Major dwellings approved
11 decided (10+ homes)
93%
Change of use approved
40 decided
882
Total decisions
99 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings