Hill Farm Lavenham Road Brent Eleigh CO10 9PB Data via plota.co.uk

DC/25/03753 - Listed Building Consent Approved
Listed buildings

Proposal

Application for Listed Building Consent - Works to facilitate change of use, partial conversion/partial reconstruction, and extension of 2 no. Barns to form 2 no. Residential Dwellings (Use Class C3) and associated Cartlodge. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
26 Aug 2025
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Validated
16 Sept 2025
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Consultation
26 Jan 2026
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Approved
21 Apr 2026

Approved on 21 Apr 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 11 Oct 2026

Documents 50

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF LISTED BUILDING CONSENT - GRANT Decision · 23 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF OFFICER DELEGATED REPORT Officer Delegated Report · 21 Apr 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 12

PDF HERITAGE RESPONSE Consultee Comment · 20 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF HERITAGE COMMENTS Consultee Comment · 2 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF NOISE ASSESSMENT Report · 10 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF HERITAGE RESPONSE Consultee Comment · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF PHASE 1 LAND CONTAMINATION REPORT Report · 15 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT Report · 15 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF LAND CONTAMINATION QUESTIONNAIRE Report · 15 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF PRELIMINARY ECOLOGICAL APPRAISAL Report · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT Report · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF BNG CALCULATIONS 130825 Report · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF STRUCTURAL ASSESSMENT Report · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF PLANNING STATEMENT Report · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗

Plans & drawings 31

PDF B1 FLOOR PLANS & ELEVATIONS 1443-01-12C Drawing Amended · 20 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF B2 AND CARTLODGE 1443-01-13B Drawing Amended · 20 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF SITE LAYOUT 1443-01-14D Drawing Amended · 20 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF EXTERNAL WALL DETAILS 1443-01-16B Drawing Amended · 20 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF B1 FRAME SECTIONS 1443-01-17A Drawing Amended · 20 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF B1 EXTENSION SECTIONS 1443-01-19B Drawing Amended · 20 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF B2 AISLE SECTIONS 1443-01-22B Drawing Amended · 20 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF MEZZANINE STAIRS 1443-01-24B Drawing Amended · 20 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED PLANS AND ELEVATIONS 1443-01-12B B1 Drawing Superseded · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED PLANS AND ELEVATIONS 1443-01-13B B2 Drawing Superseded · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF SITE LAYOUT 1443-01-14C Drawing Superseded · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF ROOF PLAN 1443-01-15C Drawing Amended · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF EXTERNAL WALL DETAILS 1443-01-16A Drawing Superseded · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF FRAME SECTIONS 1443-01-17 Drawing Superseded · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF B1 AISLE SECTIONS 1443-01-18A Drawing Amended · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF B1 EXTENSION SECTIONS 1443-01-19A Drawing Superseded · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF B2 FRAME SECTIONS 1443-01-20A Drawing Amended · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF B2 AISLE SECTIONS 1443-01-21A Drawing Amended · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF B2 AISLE SECTIONS 1443-01-22A Drawing Superseded · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED BLOCK PLAN 1443-01-23D Drawing Amended · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED MEZZANINE STAIRS 1443-01-24A Drawing Superseded · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED PLANS & ELEVATIONS 1443-01-12A - B1 Drawing Superseded · 15 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED SECTIONS/PLAN MEZZANINE STAIRS 1443-01-24 Drawing Superseded · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED AISLE SECTIONS 1443-01-22 - B2 Drawing Superseded · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED AISLE SECTIONS 1443-01-21 - B2 Drawing Superseded · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED FRAME SECTIONS 1443-01-20 - B2 Drawing Superseded · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED EXTENSION SECTIONS 1443-01-19 - B1 Drawing Superseded · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED AISLE SECTIONS 1443-01-18 - B1 Drawing Superseded · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED FRAME SECTIONS 1443-01-17 - B1 Drawing Superseded · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED EXTERNAL WALL DETAILS 1443-01-16 Drawing Superseded · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED PLANS & ELEVATIONS BARN 2+CARTLODGE 1443-01-13 - B2 Drawing Superseded · 26 Aug 2025 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF OWNERSHIP CERT B Application Form · 16 Sept 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 2

PDF HISTORIC ENGLAND RESPONSE Consultee Comment · 27 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF HISTORIC ENGLAND RESPONSE Consultee Comment · 2 Oct 2025 View ↗

Other documents 2

PDF SCHEDULE OF WORKS REV A Report · 13 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF SCHEDULE OF WORKS Additional Information · 26 Jan 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 4

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.
Public footpath 26 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.
2 listed buildings within 150 m
Nearest: Two Barns to the West of Hill Farmhouse, Grade II, 59 m away · 2 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. 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 ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 2 November 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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.

Building

Floor area861 m² (9,268 sq ft)
Energy ratingF (27 out of 100), could reach E
PropertyDetached house, 15 habitable rooms
BuiltBefore 1900
HeatingBoiler and radiators, oil
WallsTimber frame, as built, no insulation (assumed)

From the energy performance certificate lodged in March 2012, the latest held for this property. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Council
Babergh Mid Suffolk
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Postcode
CO10 9PB
Received
26 Aug 2025
Validated
16 Sept 2025
Ward
Box Vale
Parish
Brent Eleigh
Case officer
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Target decision
21 Apr 2026
Decision
Granted
Decision date
21 Apr 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Optimum Architecture Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 217 days from validation, 162 days slower than Babergh Mid Suffolk's median of 55 for listed building works. Approved, as 96% of listed building works here are.

71%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
401decided in the last year

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

Public comments

1comment received
1 objecting

Last counted 11 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14216853
Planning Portal ref
PP-14216853
Consultation
26 Jan 2026
Comments by
3 Mar 2026
Site or press notice
17 Oct 2025
Statutory expiry
11 Nov 2025
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Full Planning Application - Change of use, partial conversion/partial reconstruction, and…
DC/25/03752
2025
Planning Application. Change of use, partial conversion/partial reconstruction, and exten…
DC/25/03752
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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Babergh Mid Suffolk
Planning Authority Score
7.7/10
Good
#33 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

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

Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.