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Acorns Wickerstreet Green Kersey Ipswich Suffolk IP7 6EY
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/26/01451 - Condition 4 (Biodiversity Enhancement Strategy) Biodiversity Enhancement Strategy
Church Farm Church Road Bentley Ipswich Suffolk IP9 2DA
Notification of Works to Trees in a Conservation Area - Fell 1 No. Oak (T1)
Buxtons Old Bury Road Alpheton Sudbury Suffolk CO10 9BT
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/25/05546 - Condition 4 (Biodiversity Enhancement Strategy)
Land Adjoining Sunnybank Crowcroft Road Nedging With Naughton Suffolk
Full Planning Application - Erection of 1no. self build dwelling and detached garage including vehicular access and external works
30 Egremont Street Glemsford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 7SA
Notification of Works to Trees in a Conservation Area - Fell 1 No. Pine (T1), Pollard 1 No. Eucalyptus (T2) at 6ft, Reduce 1 No. Silver Birch (T3) by 8ft in height and reshape sides by maximum 2mtrs.
The Gables 4 The Street Assington Sudbury Suffolk CO10 5LH
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/26/02078 - Condition 4 (Biodiversity Enhancement Measures)
Braham Hall Brantham Hill Brantham Manningtree Suffolk CO11 1NN
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/25/04586 - Condition 21 (Level 2 Historic Building Record)
Meadow House Foysters Hall Monks Eleigh Ipswich Suffolk IP7 7AX
Notification of works to Trees in a Conservation Area - Overall crown reduction by approximately 2 metres to:T1- Silver birch, T2- Alder, T3- Pin Oak and T4- False Acacia. Overall crown reduction by a
Hillside 14 Stoke Road Nayland With Wissington Colchester Suffolk CO6 4JD
Notification of Works to Trees in a Conservation Area - Fell 1 No. Pear (T1)
Land North Of Kitchen Hill Kitchen Hill Sudbury
Application for Outline Planning Permission (All Matters Reserved) Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) - For a residential development
Over Hall Main Road Shotley Ipswich Suffolk IP9 1PW
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/26/01021 - Conditions 3 (Brickworks Repairs), 4 (Materials), 5 (Sample Panel of Brickwork) and 6 (Joinery Repairs)
Glebe Cottage Duke Street Hintlesham Ipswich Suffolk IP8 3PW
Householder Application - Single storey outbuilding proposed in the garden of Glebe Cottage.
Suffolk House Ixworth Road Norton Suffolk
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/23/03760 - Condition 13 (Highways Licence), 15 (Construction Management Plan), 20 (Biodiversity Enhancement Layout), 21 (Landscape and Ecological Management
51 High Street Lavenham Sudbury Suffolk CO10 9PY
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/23/04420 - Condition 1 (Cycle Storage)
Land West Of Suffolk House Ixworth Road Norton Suffolk
Discharge of Conditions Application for DC/25/00562 - Conditions 16 (Construction Management Plan), 19 (Construction Environmental Management Plan), 20 (Biodiversity Enhancement Layout), 21 (Landscape
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When Babergh District Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.
Babergh District Council, raw rate
28%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
29.6%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
1.6 percentage points below expected. Babergh District Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
453 appeals counted, 440 judged either way (123 allowed, 317 dismissed), 13 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.
Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.
| Appeal type | Cases | Judged | Allowed | This council | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 338 | 335 | 87 | 26% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 69 | 66 | 27 | 40.9% | 35.6% |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 18 | 16 | 3 | 18.8% | 25% |
| Enforcement Notice | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0% | 13.5% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 7 | 7 | 4 | 57.1% | 36.9% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 3 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 33.3% |
| Appeal against Enforcement Listed Building Notice/Enforcement Conservation Area Notice | 2 | 2 | 1 | Too few judged | 8.1% |
| High Hedges | 2 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 28.5% |
| Environmental | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Rights of Way Modifications | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 100% |
| Rights of Way Opposed Orders | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Tree Preservation Order | 1 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 20.6% |
“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Babergh District Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.
Babergh District Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
SiteLens tracks the Babergh District Council planning register daily and enriches every new application automatically. Each is AI-classified by category and trade, given an estimated value band and a plain-English project brief, mapped, and checked against constraint flags like flood zones, conservation areas and green belt. Where an application names an agent, SiteLens shows the firm and matches companies to Companies House. Pro adds the applicant's name, the directors and company health behind each match, and the agent's direct email and phone where the council or firm publishes them, so you know who to speak to about the scheme.
You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official Babergh District Council planning portal.
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