Planning application
Tesco Stores Ltd Copdock Interchange Pinewood Ipswich Suffolk IP8 3TS
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Full Planning Application - Removal of the existing hand car wash and associated structures; reconfiguration and realignment of the internal bus lane and kerbline; relocation of existing lighting and CCTV columns; lowering existing utility covers; and re-marking of the car park to provide 19 additional customer parking spaces
As published by the council, reference DC/26/03186
Application record
- Reference
- DC/26/03186
- Type
- Full Planning Application
- Status
- Awaiting decision
- Received
- 23 Jul 2026
- Validated
- 24 Jul 2026
- Ward
- Sproughton & Pinewood
- Parish
- Pinewood
- Postcode
- IP8 3TS
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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23 Jul 2026
Received by Babergh
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24 Jul 2026
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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2 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 18 September 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
Babergh took a median of 49 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
Contour Planning Services Limited Agent, a planning consultancy registered in Stevenage
Active · incorporated 2010 · Stevenage
19 applications on PlanIndex · across 14 councils · 92% granted
Trade members see everything this firm has filed, how it was decided, and get an email the day it files again.
See their track recordDocuments
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
16 documents on file for this application
- ECOLOGY RESPONSE
- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RESPONSE
- ENV RESPONSE NOISE ODOUR LIGHT AND SMOKE
- IPSWICH BOROUGH COUNCIL RESPONSE
- SCC HIGHWAYS RESPONSE
- APPLICATION FORM
- (SITE LOCATION PLAN) 2748_P_01
- (EXISTING BLOCK PLAN) 2748_P_02
- (EXISTING LAYOUT PLAN) 2748_P_03
- (PROPOSED BLOCK PLAN) 2748_P_04
- (PROPOSED LAYOUT PLAN) 2748_P_05
- (PROPOSED LAYOUT OVERLAY PLAN) 2748_P_06
- (VEHICLE SWEPT ANALYSIS - BUS TURNING AREA) 2401_045_SP01
- TRANSPORT TECHNICAL NOTE (2401-045 TN 01)
- COVERING LETTER L001
Trade members open them from here.
Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with Babergh for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Babergh decided full applications in a median of 74 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
About full applications
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