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Ed Sheeran gets permission to convert six Suffolk barns for archive use
Ed Sheeran has permission to use six old barns on his estate in Suffolk, England, as storage and a music archive.
The barns are part of a farm he bought for £1.1 million near his existing home.
The council approved the barns for owner-and-family storage, with no extra vehicles, lighting or equipment planned there.
Sheeran has separate permission to turn a 19th-century piggery and barn into recording studios.
The council said the plans would preserve the buildings’ rural character, and Sheeran has promised to repair them while keeping as much of their original form as possible.
Work on the studio buildings has been slow because workers must use hand tools and take precautions for protected great crested newts.
The site is planned as a music archive and recording complex, but the new permission is specifically for storage in the six barns.
Ed Sheeran has received permission to use six adjoining barns at his Suffolk estate for storage and archive space.
The barns date from as early as 1870 and are to be used by Sheeran and his family.
Mid-Suffolk District Council approved the plans, which include repairing the buildings while retaining as much of their original form as possible.
The permission follows earlier approval to convert a 19th-century piggery and barn into studios.
Planning documents say the barn use will involve no additional vehicles, lighting or installed equipment.
- Who
- Ed Sheeran received the permission.
- What
- He can use six adjoining barns for storage and archive space for himself and his family.
- When
- The permission was reported on 29 October 2026. The date it was granted is not stated.
- Where
- At Sheeran’s estate in Suffolk, England.
- Why
- The barns are intended for storage and archive use for the owner and his family.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Sheeran received approval to convert a 19th-century piggery and barn into studios.
The Daily Mail reported that Sheeran had permission to use six adjoining barns for storage and archive space.
- Permission
- Six adjoining barns approved for storage and archive use
- Location
- Suffolk
- Earliest barn date
- 1870
- Earlier studio plans
- A 19th-century piggery and barn
- Authority
- Mid-Suffolk District Council
What people are saying
The proposed use of the outbuildings is storage/archive space for the owner/family only and there will be no additional vehicles, lighting, equipment installed.
Whilst the site occupies a countryside location, the proposal does not constitute new isolated development unrelated to its surroundings.
Rather, it represents the sensitive restoration and continued ancillary use of an established group of buildings within an existing residential curtilage.
The main ethos of the proposed development is to reinstate the outbuildings in their original form – this will be achieved by restoring the partially deteriorated/collapsed elements to the form, scale and design of the original buildings.