New housing in Mid Suffolk District Council
We read Mid Suffolk District Council's planning register every day. We hold 12,506 of its planning applications going back to 2013, and 24 of those made in the last 12 months are for new homes.
It delivered 227% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test.
Key facts
- Local Plan
- Not recorded yet.
- Five-year housing land supply
- Not recorded yet.
- Housing Delivery Test
- 227% (2025)
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 12,506
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 24 | 12 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 38 | 27 | 7 |
| 2023 | 50 | 27 | 15 |
| 2022 | 49 | 29 | 12 |
| 2021 | 78 | 51 | 18 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 300 | Land Off Bury Road Woolpit Suffolk Application to confirm compliance with discharge of Section 106 obligations relating to Outline Planning Permission DC/18/04247 (up to 300 dwellings) for Schedule 2, Part 2 1.2 Affordable Housing Scheme, Schedule 2… DC/24/03729 | Approved | 21 Aug 2024 |
| 64 | Land At Meadow Lane Thurston Suffolk Application for the Modification of a Section 106 Planning Obligation relating to 4942/16 (64 dwellings) to amend the Affordable Housing Scheme. DC/26/02186 | Approved | 1 Jun 2026 |
| 49 | Land South Of Brooklands Road Brantham Suffolk Full Planning Application - Residential development of 49No dwellings and associated infrastructure and landscaping. DC/25/01039 | Withdrawn | 10 Mar 2025 |
| 14 | Land East Of Hockey Hill Wetheringsett Cum Brockford IP14 5PN Application for Approval of Reserved Matters under Application for Outline Permission DC/20/04921 (14no dwellings including 4no Affordable) Allowed at Appeal APP/W3520/W/22/3292871; details of Appearance and Landscaping… DC/26/01758 | Approved | 28 Apr 2026 |
| 9 | 30 Wellington Road Eye Suffolk IP23 7BE Application for Approval of Reserved Matters following grant of DC/21/04401 and subsequent S73 DC/22/05205 for shared Access. Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure)(England) Order 2015 (as amended)… DC/24/03763 | Approved | 23 Aug 2024 |
| 5 | Land At Norton Rise Ixworth Road Norton IP31 3XU Part submission of Details (Reserved Matters) Application for Outline Planning Permission DC/24/03919 (5 Self-build dwellings) for the proposed layout and landscaping of the site with scale and appearance of 1no… DC/26/03827 | Approved | 4 Sept 2026 |
| 5 | Land At Stanton Street Ixworth Road Norton IP31 3LJ Application for Approval of Reserved Matters (Appearance, Landscaping, Layout, and Scale) in part pursuant to Outline Planning Permission DC/24/03919 (Erection of 5no. self-build dwellings and garages) - Erection of… DC/26/03471 | Approved | 13 Aug 2026 |
| 4 | Hope Barn Stoke Road Thorndon IP23 7JG Submission of Details, Reserved Matters Application for Outline Planning Permission DC/21/06244. Appearance, Landscaping, Layout and Scale for the erection of 4no dwellings with vehicular access. DC/24/01969 | Approved | 26 Apr 2024 |
| 4 | Land At Grassy Lane Farm Grassy Lane Woolpit Suffolk Full Planning Application - Erection of 4No dwellings (following demolition of barns). DC/24/01506 | Approved | 28 Mar 2024 |
| 4 | Land Adjacent To Shepherd And Dog Inn Stowmarket Road Earl Stonham Suffolk Outline Planning Application (Access to be considered, all other matters reserved) - Erection of 4no. dwellings and construction of new vehicular access DC/23/05498 | Refused | 28 Nov 2023 |
Towns and villages
See every field round the edge of a town or village, scored for how likely it is to be built on.
- Ashbocking
- Bacton (Mid Suffolk)
- Badwell Ash
- Barking
- Battisford Tye
- Bedfield
- Beyton
- Botesdale and Rickinghall
- Bramford
- Brome
- Burstallhill
- Claydon
- Coddenham
- Combs
- Crowfield
- Debenham
- Drinkstone Green
- Elmswell
- Eye (Mid Suffolk)
- Felsham
- Finningham
- Fressingfield
- Gislingham
- Great Blakenham
- Great Bricett
- Great Finborough
- Haughley
- Heckfield Green
- Henley
- Hessett
- Hinderclay
- Horham
- Laxfield
- Mellis
- Mendlesham
- Mendlesham Green
- Metfield
- Needham Market
- Norton (Mid Suffolk)
- Occold
- Old Newton
- Palgrave
- Rattlesden
- Redgrave
- Sharpstone Street
- Somersham (Mid Suffolk)
- Stonham Aspal
- Stowmarket
- Stowupland
- Stradbroke
- Thorndon
- Thurston
- Tostock
- Walsham le Willows
- Wattisfield
- Wetherden
- Wetheringsett
- Wickham Skeith
- Wingfield
- Woolpit
- Woolpit Heath
- Worlingworth
- Wortham
- Yaxley (Mid Suffolk)
Where this comes from
- Planning applications: Mid Suffolk District Council's online planning register, last read 14 Nov 2026.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.