Mid Suffolk District

Mid Suffolk is an area of agriculture, market towns, historic churches and ancient sites

                                                       Built c 1474-80 by Sir James Tyrell, the Chapel of

                                                       St. Nicholas Gipping stands in an idyllic situation

                                                       and is an example of late Perpendicular

DISTINCTIVE FEATURES

- Mid Suffolk covers a large area with over 120 towns and villages.

- The landscape is mainly flat or gently undulating, with small woods and hedged fields – some of the hedges having been recently replanted.

- Recently the Hundred Lane network of green lanes has been reopened to pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders (but not to motorised vehicles).

- Mid Suffolk is mainly covered in boulder-clay and the large number of moated medieval sites is related to the  water-holding properties of this clay.

- The area is rich in old timber-framed and flint barns.

- In the towns, villages and countryside there are many fine ancient timber-framed houses and cottages.

- Both the landscape and the villages of the district are very vulnerable to buildings, both residential, agricultural and industrial, which are out of scale with their surroundings and use materials and designs which are insensitive to the environs.

ACTIVITIES

Our Committee meets 4 times a year

We send details of local planning applications to our local monitors (watchdogs) and monitor remaining applications, writing to the local authority where necessary

Some of our villages have local planning monitors but we are very keen to enlist more

We respond to planning concerns of our members and others.

We have an annual party which includes a talk and discussion

For local problems, suggestions, details of meetings or any other activities, please contact the Branch Chairman:

Douglas Evans, Oak Cottage, Daisy Green, Great Ashfield, Bury St Edmunds IP31 3HS

Telephone: 01359 242643     Email: douglasevans@waitrose.com

Mid Suffolk District Council - www.midsuffolk.gov.uk