Valley Farm Valley Lane Buxhall Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 3EB Data via plota.co.uk

DC/26/00830 - Householder Planning Application Refused

Proposal

Householder Application - Erection of a swimming pool. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

27 Feb 2026

✓

Validated

2 Mar 2026

✓

Consultation

27 Mar 2026

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Refused

27 Apr 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 27 Apr 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 25 Sept 2026

Documents 15

Site constraints 3

Grade II listed: Valley Farmhouse

List entry 1352166 · 3 m away

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.

Historic England ↗

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 ↗

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), 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.

Not affected

Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 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: Householder Planning Application
Postcode: IP14 3EB
Received: 27 Feb 2026
Validated: 2 Mar 2026
Ward: Rattlesden
Parish: Buxhall
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 27 Apr 2026
Decision: Refused
Decision date: 27 Apr 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Acorus Rural Property Services

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, about the council's usual 55 days. Refused, as 8% of extensions here are.

This one56d

Council55d

UK55d

73%decided within 8 weeks

92%approved

670decided 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 →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 25 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14741817
Planning Portal ref: PP-14741817
Consultation: 27 Mar 2026
Comments by: 10 Apr 2026
Site or press notice: 13 Mar 2026
Statutory expiry: 27 Apr 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

2 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Refused

Householder Application - Construction of swimming pool, hard standing and erection of pl…

DC/25/04837 6 Jan 2026

2025 Refused

Householder Application - Construction of swimming pool, hard standing and erection of pl…

DC/25/04837 6 Jan 2026

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

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

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

Valley Farm Valley Lane Buxhall Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 3EB Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 15

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 7

Application forms 1

Consultation & comments 2

Other documents 3