Oak Cottage Polstead Hill Polstead CO6 5AH Data via plota.co.uk

DC/26/00495 - Listed Building Consent Approved
Extensions & alterationsListed buildings

Proposal

Application for Listed Building Consent. Replacement of external sand/cement render with lime render. Internal alterations to provide shower room to ground floor, kitchen partition wall opening to be widened, kitchen installation and replacement of modern timber posts. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
6 Feb 2026
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Validated
9 Feb 2026
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Consultation
9 Feb 2026
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Approved
1 Apr 2026

Approved on 1 Apr 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 8 Jul 2026

Documents 9

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF LISTED BUILDING CONSENT - GRANT Decision · 1 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF OFFICER DELEGATED REPORT Officer Delegated Report · 1 Apr 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 2

PDF DESIGN AND ACCESS HERITAGE STATEMENT REV A Report · 27 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF SUPERSEDED HERITAGE STATEMENT Report · 6 Feb 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM Application Form · 6 Feb 2026 View ↗

Other documents 4

PDF RENDER INVESTIGATIONS COVER EMAIL Correspondence · 24 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF INSPECTION HOLES ON RENDER Photo · 24 Mar 2026 View ↗ IMG RENDER PHOTO Photo · 12 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PHOTOGRAPHS Photo · 9 Mar 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 2

Site constraints 6

Grade II listed: Oak Cottage
List entry 1284597 · 0 m from the pin · 13 more listed buildings within 150 m (13 Grade II)
Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
Dedham Vale National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
Polstead conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
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 ↗
Public byway open to all traffic 9 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.
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
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: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 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
Babergh Mid Suffolk
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Postcode
CO6 5AH
Received
6 Feb 2026
Validated
9 Feb 2026
Ward
Brett Vale
Parish
Polstead
Case officer
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Target decision
6 Apr 2026
Decision
Granted
Decision date
1 Apr 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Box Valley Architectural Design

How this decision compares

Decided in 51 days from validation, about the council's usual 54 days. Approved, as 91% of extensions here are.

76%decided within 8 weeks
91%approved
513decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by Babergh Mid Suffolk in the last twelve months, from validation. Babergh Mid Suffolk decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14686264
Consultation
9 Feb 2026
Comments by
2 Mar 2026
Site or press notice
11 Feb 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

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Corders House Polstead Hill Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AH
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DC/19/03526
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DC/19/02759
2019 Approved
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2018 Approved
Rose Cottage Polstead Hill Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AH
Application for Listed Building Consent - Partial removal of internal masonry wall.
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2018 Approved
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Babergh Mid Suffolk
Planning Authority Score
7.7/10
Good
#33 of 296 councils
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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
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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