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East Suffolk planning permission refused: the reasons, counted

Most were refused over design. We read 30 of the 32 applications for building work East Suffolk refused since December 2025 and sorted each by what its reasons were about. Each dot is one of them.

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  1. Design and character of the area 20 of 30

  2. Insufficient information 6 of 30

  3. Neighbours' amenity 6 of 30

  4. Trees, landscape and ecology 5 of 30

  5. Heritage assets 4 of 30

  6. Green Belt and open countryside 3 of 30

  7. Highways and parking 3 of 30

  8. Living conditions for future occupiers 2 of 30

Each dot is one refusal. A refusal usually gives more than one reason, so it can stand in more than one row.

Also cited: flooding and drainage (1), principle of development (1).

Of the 30 refusals of building work East Suffolk made since December 2025 that we read, 67% were refused at least in part over design or the character of the area. Plan Forecast, 6 November 2026.

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Design and character of the area

of the refusals we read

20 of the 30 applications for building work East Suffolk refused that we read gave a reason about how the work looked, or how it sat in its street: its size, its shape, its materials.

How the councils compare

  • Bolton 80%
  • Folkestone and Hythe 74%
  • Manchester 73%
  • Trafford 73%
  • Bromley 71%
  • Cheshire West and Chester 70%
  • Leeds 70%
  • York 68%
  • East Suffolk 67%
  • Epping Forest 66%
  • Lambeth 64%
  • Rochdale 63%
  • Croydon 62%
  • Reading 60%
  • Salford 59%
  • Wakefield 59%
  • Milton Keynes 52%
  • North Yorkshire 52%
  • Buckinghamshire 50%
  • Ealing 50%
  • Northumberland 48%
  • Ashford 47%
  • South Gloucestershire 47%
  • Stockport 42%
  • Westminster 40%
  • Tameside 37%
  • Bracknell Forest 36%
  • Cotswold 35%

Share of each council's refused applications for building work we read that gave a reason about it.

Also cited

  • Insufficient information 6 of 30
  • Neighbours' amenity 6 of 30
  • Trees, landscape and ecology 5 of 30
  • Heritage assets 4 of 30
  • Green Belt and open countryside 3 of 30
  • Highways and parking 3 of 30
  • Living conditions for future occupiers 2 of 30
  • Flooding and drainage 1 of 30
  • Principle of development 1 of 30

How we count

These are East Suffolk's own refusals of every kind of work we sort applications into (work we cannot name is left out), decided since December 2025 and listed on its register. For each one we read the decision notice and sorted its reasons by what they were about. 2 we have not read yet; they are counted as refusals and not as refusals without reasons.

A refusal usually gives more than one reason, so the shares add up to more than a hundred. Which refusals they were, where, and what each said, is in the Planning Forecast for your address, with a link to each council's own notice.

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