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DC/25/3118/ADN - Non-Illuminated Advertisement Consent Approved
Signs & adverts

Proposal

Non - Illuminated Advertisement Consent - The erection of a wall mounted timber notice board with glass door. Data via plota.co.uk

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Received
12 Aug 2025
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Approved
4 Nov 2025

Approved on 4 Nov 2025 · Committee Decision · Last checked 14 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by East Suffolk Planning Committee South on 28 Oct 2025.

Approved unanimously

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the larger timber notice board would not harm amenity or public safety.
  • The town council supported the proposal, while consultees raised no highway, environmental protection or landscape concerns.
  • The committee voted unanimously to approve advertisement consent subject to conditions.
Read how the committee decided The proposed notice board, site context, officers’ assessment, consultation responses, committee discussion, vote and decision. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of East Suffolk's committee minutes of 28 Oct 2025.

Documents 10

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Officer / Committee Report Officer / Committee Report · 4 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF APPROVE - NON-ILLUMINATED ADVERT Decision Notice · 4 Nov 2025 View ↗

Plans & drawings 2

PDF SZC-SZ0100-XX-000-DRW-100796 LOCATION PLAN Drawing · 12 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF SZC-SZ0100-XX-000-DRW-100738 REV 01 PROPOSED ELEVATION Drawing · 12 Aug 2025 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Application Form · 12 Aug 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 4

PDF LEISTON-CUM-SIZEWELL TOWN COUNCIL Consultee Comment · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF SCC COASTS & HEATHS PROJECT Consultee Comment · 27 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF SCC LOCAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY Consultee Comment · 15 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Consultee Comment · 14 Aug 2025 View ↗

Other documents 1

PDF SZC HABOUR AUTHORITY SINGLE BAY SIGNAGE V1 Supporting Documents · 12 Aug 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 13

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 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 ↗
Suffolk Coast & Heaths 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.
Public footpath 13 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.
Heritage coast: Suffolk
A defined stretch of undeveloped coastline.
Development inconsistent with keeping the coast undeveloped is resisted.
Agricultural land, grade 5
Very poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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 4. 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.
National infrastructure project 6 m away: Galloper Offshore Wind Farm
The site is 6 m from the project boundary. Generating station, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: The Sizewell C Project (decided, 136 m); East Anglia ONE North Offshore Windfarm (decided, 637 m); East Anglia TWO Offshore Windfarm (decided, 637 m); Suffolk Water Recycling Transfer and Storage (at pre-application, 1635 m).
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
Special area of conservation 120 m away: Outer Thames Estuary
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Aldeburgh to Hopton on Sea 16 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site; the route and its margin are protected.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
SSSI 278 m away: Sizewell Marshes SSSI; 1 listed building within 150 m; Flood defence 28 m away (dunes, designed for a 1 in 10 year flood); Priority habitat 44 m away: Coastal vegetated shingle.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 2 November 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate 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
Application type
Non-Illuminated Advertisement Consent
Postcode
IP16 4UH
Received
12 Aug 2025
Validated
12 Aug 2025
Ward
Aldeburgh And Leiston
Parish
Leiston Cum Sizewell
Case officer
Show
Target decision
4 Nov 2025
Decision
Application Permitted
Decision date
4 Nov 2025
Decision level
Committee Decision
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 84 days from validation, 28 days slower than East Suffolk's median of 56 for signs and adverts. Approved, as 82% of signs and adverts here are.

54%decided within 8 weeks
82%approved
56decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

1 neighbour consulted · Last counted 14 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Committee
28 Oct 2025
Statutory expiry
7 Oct 2025
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

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East Suffolk
Planning Authority Score
5.3/10
Average
#129 of 296 councils
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Other 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