Planning permission has been requested to build a luxury wellbeing retreat complete with therapy pets and camping domes near Bury St Edmunds.

An application has been submitted for a change of use to land on Porters Farm in Queens Lane, Chedburgh to create animal enclosures, camping domes and a healing garden.

Land owners Jon and Laura Cardy have prior experience as an intensive care consultant and nurse respectively.

They state their intentions for the wellbeing centre within their planning submission, saying: "Having spent many years on the frontline of the NHS mending very broken bodies, we now aim to heal fractured minds at The Suffolk Sanctuary, a space with mental health and well-being central to its concept."

Detailed within the design plans, the wellbeing centre will have a variety of facilities for consultation, supportive care, workshops and overnight accommodation.

The couple have been providing mental health support at Porters Farm informally for the past four years and say demand for the services proposed is "extremely high".

They have also applied for listed building consent for the removal of a Laing Hut dating from the Second World War.