Consultations and Engagement

These consultations are specifically pre-application planning surveys. They are available to review and respond to for a standardised 28 days and are advertised in the local press accordingly.

Suffolk’s local transport plan

We are in the process of updating the local transport plan. This is a statutory document that sets out the transport needs, challenges and priorities for Suffolk in the medium to long term.

This consultation has been designed to seek your opinions at an early stage and allow you to influence the new local transport plan’s development to shape the infrastructure and provision of transport for the future.

Corporate services

• Budget consultation 2024/2025

Adult services

• Carers Strategy 2022-2027

Children's services

• Post-16 Travel Policy 2022/2023 school year

Highways

• Ipswich Moving Traffic Enforcement consultation: Dogs Head Street, Fore Street, Upper Brook Street, Old Norwich Road (Claydon)
• Defoe Road and Henley Road pedestrian and off-road cycle provision
• Developers Guide to Infrastructure Contributions in Suffolk
• Ipswich Northern Route
• Proposed 30mph speed limit for the Parish of Oulton
• Proposed 40mph speed limit – Various roads in the parishes in and adjacent to Oulton Division
• Proposed speed limit extension - Fishponds Way, Haughley
• Suffolk Design: Streets Guide
• West Suffolk Hospital (TRO) Parking Consultation
• Proposed waiting restrictions along various roads in Snape
• Proposed Traffic Regulation Order associated with the Hayhill residential development, Ipswich
• Proposed waiting restrictions for Leiston Road, Aldeburgh
• Proposed alterations to existing no waiting at any time restriction Duke Street and Market Place, Hadleigh 
• All Saint's Newmarket - residents parking zone
• Proposed waiting restrictions for Leiston Road, Aldeburgh
• West End Road (Ipswich) bus lane
• A140 Improvement Consultation
• Various roads, Lowestoft - prohibition and restriction of waiting (experimental)
• Eye Experimental Traffic Regulation Order (ETRO) consultation
• Proposed Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) – Kempson Way & Skyliner Way, Bury St Edmunds
• Nightingale Avenue and Shearwater Way, Reydon - Informal consultation of proposed double yellow lines
• Wilford Bridge Road, Melton - formal consultation of proposed speed limit change
• Ipswich Town Centre - Traffic Regulation Order
• Proposed Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) – Various Roads, Red Lodge
• Proposed speed limit changes to Stone Street, Hadleigh and Union Hill, Semer
• Proposed speed limit changes to Saxtead Green, Saxtead

Public health

• Tell us what you think of pharmacy services in Suffolk on the Healthy Suffolk website
• 2022 Draft Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment Consultation

Schools

• Post-16 Travel Policy 2023/2024 School Year
• Brooklands Primary School expansion to 315 places pre-application planning consultation
• Elmswell Primary School expansion to 420 places pre-application planning consultation
• IES Breckland School expansion to 600 places pre-application planning consultation
• Non-statutory consultation on Expansion of Edgar Sewter Primary School
• Non-statutory consultation to expand Harbour Pupil Referral Unit and Old Warren House
• Non-statutory pre-application planning consultation for Thurston Community College
• SEND Provision at Oulton Broad Primary School
• Setting of term dates for 2024/25 
• Statutory Proposal to close the Speech and Language Unit at Hardwick Primary School, Bury St Edmunds 
• Statutory Proposal to Enlarge the Premises at Elmswell Community Primary School
• Statutory Proposal to Establish SEND at St Edmund's Catholic Primary School
• Non-statutory consultation to provide a Primary School and Pre-School in Henley Gate Neighbourhood
• Non-statutory consultation to relocate and expand Lakenheath Primary School
• Non-statutory consultation to provide a Primary School, Secondary School and Pre-School in Red House Neighbourhood
• Admissions to schools in Suffolk for the 2025/2026 school year

Residential development 

• Newmarket St Felix Housing Development
• Proposed development at Seaman Avenue, Saxmundham
• Local Planning Validation Checklist consultation
• Suffolk walking, wheeling and cycling routes

The Consultation and Engagement Charter sets out our commitment to consult and engage with people. It also sets out, in broad terms, what we mean by consultation and engagement, how we will consult and engage, why, what we will do with that information and how we will be transparent about it.

Read the Consultation and Engagement Charter in full.