Essex County Council
Planning applications.

1. Decision MadeESS/53/12/COL/SO

   The continued use of a 2,000 scmh environmental flare stack on the Bellhouse South Landfill Site for a further temporary 12 month period to aid the control of landfill gas at the Bellhouse Landfill site without compliance with Condition 3 (time limit) attached to planning permission ESS/31/11/COL.

   Tarmac Ltd, Bellhouse Pit, Warren Lane, Stanway, Colchester, CO3 0NN

   Received 1 Aug 2012
2. Decision MadeCC/UTT/24/21/6/1

   Description: Details pursuant to Condition 6 – Landscaping Scheme (Retrospective) - CC/UTT/24/21: Provision of 2 temporary classrooms to provide accommodation for primary education for a temporary period from September 2021, together with associated external play spaces and car/cycle parking.

   Helena Romanes School, Parsonage Downs, Great Dunmow, Essex, CM6 2AU

   Received 14 Mar 2023
3. Decision MadeESS/52/13/UTT/13/2

   Details pursuant to Condition 13 – Noise monitoring ESS/52/13/UTT (Continuation of winning and working of sand and gravel without compliance with Condition 2 (Application details) to regularise changes in operations and the amendment of Condition 67 (to allow the crushing of inert waste) attached planning permission ESS/65/06/UTT).

   Highwood Quarry, Little Canfield, Essex, CM6 1SL

   Received 17 Oct 2017
4. Decision MadeCC/HLW/30/05

   Erection of a gated enclosure, constructed from 3 metre high galvanised steel palisade fencing and 3 metres high galvanised double leaf gates, for the storage of school mini buses adjacent to the garage

   Harlow Fields School,Tendring Road,Harlow,CM18 6RN

   Received 10 Mar 2005
5. Decision MadeCC/HLW/51/09

   Construction of a new 1200 place two-storey secondary school and technology college with multi-use games area, all weather pitch and floodlights, 80 car parking spaces, 200 cycle spaces, hard and soft play areas, entrance plaza, strategic landscaping and associated highway works to Tracyes Road.

   Former Brays Grove School, Tracyes Road, Harlow,Passmores School and Technology College,Tendring Road,Harlow,CM18 6RW

   Received 25 Jun 2009
6. Decision MadeESS/68/20/MAL/40/2

   Details pursuant to Condition 40 – Aftercare Scheme (Years 1-2) - ESS/68/20/MAL: Continuation of the construction of an agricultural reservoir by the extraction and removal from the site of sand, gravel and surplus soils, without compliance with Conditions 3 (cessation and restoration by 20th May 2020), 4 (removal of plant and machinery by 20th May 2020) and 39 (removal of Wash Lane crossing and reinstatement of hedgerow by 20th May 2020) attached to planning permission ref ESS/38/18/MAL, to allow additional time for completion and restoration of the development.

   Cobbs Farm, Maldon Road, Goldhanger, Maldon, CM9 8BQ

   Received 18 Apr 2024
7. Decision MadeESS/80/97/EPF

   Variation of Condition on EPF/369/90 (renewal of permission until 31/12/2010)

   PART OF LANGRIDGE FARM, PAYNES LANE, NAZEING,Nazeing Quarry,Green Lane,Nazeing,Waltham Abbey,EN10 6TD

   Received 17 Nov 1997
8. Decision MadeESS/16/20/UTT/13/02

   Details pursuant to condition 13 (Noise monitoring results for August 2021) of ESS/16/20/UTT. ESS/16/20/UTT extant permission for “Winning & working of sand and gravel, erection of a concrete plant, workshop & ancillary buildings/importation & treatment of inert material to produce secondary aggregate & reclamation material for progressive restoration to landscaped farmland” originally permitted under ESS/65/06/UTT.

   Highwood Quarry, Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, Essex, CM6 1SL

   Received 2 Aug 2022
9. Decision MadeCC/BAS/15/00

   New building to provide 3 classbases linked to existing school building. Plus ancillary works.

   Vange Primary School,London Road,Vange,Basildon

   Received 24 Mar 2000
10. Decision MadeESS/72/23/MAL/6/1

    Continued importation of packaged Intermediate Level Waste (ILW) without compliance with condition 04 (Importation Limits) of planning permission ESS/86/20/MAL from Magnox sites Sizewell "A" and Dungeness "A" to Bradwell Power Station and the interim storage within the existing Interim Storage Facility (ISF) at Bradwell Power Station, Downhall Beach, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex, CM0 7HP.

    Bradwell Power Station, Downhall Beach, Bradwell-on-sea, Essex, CM0 7HP

    Received 9 Oct 2024
11. Decision MadeESS/29/20/TEN/17/1

    Details pursuant to Conditions 14 (CEMP); 17 (Biodiversity Enhancement); 27 (LEMP); 53 (Revised Restoration Plan); 54 (Landscaping) and 56 (agricultural Aftercare) of planning permission ESS/29/20/TEN that was for the proposed western extension to Martells Quarry for the extraction, processing, sale and distribution of silica sand and gravel, and subsequent restoration using inert materials along with the creation of a new access. Land at Martells Quarry, Slough Lane, Ardleigh, Essex, CO7 7RU

    Martells Quarry, Slough Lane, Ardleigh, Essex, CO7 7RU

    Received 5 Nov 2024
12. Decision MadeESS/31/02/EPF/SO

    Leachate treatment plant comprising aeration tanks, leachate feed balance tanks control room, pipeline for discharge to foul sewer & ancillary plant/structure.

    Ongar Landfill Site,Mill Lane,Ongar,CM5 9RG

    Received 21 Jun 2002
13. Decision MadeESS/41/07/MAL/SO

    Retention of temporary LLWMF at Bradwell site until 31 December 2019 (Look at ESS/41/16/MAL/SO)

    Bradwell Nuclear Power Station,Bradwell on Sea,Maldon,CM0 7HP

    Received 13 Sept 2016
14. Considering Consultation Responses/Report being PreparedESS/96/21/CHL

    Continuation of development without compliance with condition 3 (applications details) and condition 74 (restoration timescale for original quarry area) of planning permission ESS/42/17/CHL to allow provision of a larger mineral and waste processing area and delay in the removal of the existing processing plant and restoration of the original quarry; and installation of additional mineral and waste processing facilities and provision of a new portal framed workshop - part retrospective. ESS/42/17/CHL is the extant planning permission for “Extraction of an estimated reserve of 2.8 million tonnes of sand and gravel (from sites A38 and A39 as identified in the Minerals Local Plan 2014) and retention of existing access onto the A131, retention of existing sand and gravel processing plant (to be relocated within site A38), progressive restoration to agriculture using inert fill, installation of inert recycling facility, including screening and crushing to recover secondary aggregate. In addition revised restoration scheme for the existing quarry area."

    Blackley Quarry, Gt Leighs, Braintree, Essex CM3 1QP

    Received 3 Nov 2021
15. Decision MadeESS/06/08/BAS

    Construction of a GRP (Glass Reinforced Plastic) Building to house electrical control equipment

    Basildon Sewage Treatment Works,Courtauld Road,Basildon,SS13 1DB

    Received 5 Feb 2008
16. Decision MadeCC/CHL/101/10/NMA

    Revisions to surface water drainage

    Danbury County Youth Camp,Well Lane,Danbury,Chelmsford,CM3 4AB

    Received 5 May 2011
17. Decision MadeCC/CHL/137/07

    The continued use of two relocatable classroom units until 30 September 2012 without complying with Condition 1 (time limit) attached to planning permission CC/CHL/138/02

    Thriftwood School,Slades Lane,Galleywood,Chelmsford,CM2 2RW

    Received 21 Sept 2007
18. Decision MadeESS/30/11/CHL/22/7

    Continuation of infilling with inert waste without compliance with condition 35 (restoration by 31 December 2002) attached to planning permission ESX/21/92/CHL to allow the completion of restoration by 31 December 2017 at Sandon Quarry, Southend Road, Chelmsford CM2 7TE.

    Sandon Quarry, Southend Road, Sandon, Essex, CM2 7TE

    Received 12 Dec 2016
19. Decision MadeESS/19/17/BTE/28/6

    Details pursuant to Condition 28 (Noise Monitoring) of Planning permission ESS/19/17/BTE that was for “A new sand and gravel quarry at Broadfield Farm, to the west of Rayne, near Braintree, comprising the phased mineral extraction of some 3.66m tonnes of sand and gravel; the installation of a processing plant and ancillary buildings and infrastructure; the construction of a quarry access onto the B1256; the construction of a permanent screening landform; the construction of temporary screen mounds in defined locations around the perimeter of the quarry; the phased restoration of the extraction area using indigenous soil; overburden and clay from within the application site to a land use mixture of arable agriculture, lowland acid grassland, lowland meadow, woodland, lake and reedbeds; and public access via proposed public rights of way”.

    Land at Rayne Quarry, Dunmow Road, Braintree, Essex, Rayne

    Received 31 Aug 2023
20. Decision MadeESS/62/11/MAL

    Materials recycling facility for municipal, construction, commercial and industrial waste. Proposed development includes an extension to the existing onsite building as well as associated site improvement works

    Green Recycling Ltd, Quayside Industrial Estate, Bates Road, Maldon, CM9 5FA

    Received 22 Dec 2011
21. Decision MadeCC/CHL/26/12/9/1

    The development of a single storey building to accommodate a library and range of community spaces without compliance with condition 2 (approved details) attached to planning permission CC/CHL/51/11 to allow changes to the design, height and overall floor area of the development permitted

    Springfield Parish Centre, St. Augustines Way, Chelmsford, CM1 6GX

    Received 24 Aug 2012
22. Decision MadeESS/111/22/UTT

    Continuation of the importation of inert material, installation and use of recycling plant and the final disposal of inert residues to facilitate restoration of the site to calcareous grassland, together with the continued extraction of chalk reserve (application ref: ESS/42/18/UTT) without compliance with condition 6 (HGV movements) to allow an increase in the permitted number of daily HGV movements

    Newport Chalk Quarry, Chalk Farm Lane, Newport, Saffron Walden, Essex

    Received 18 Nov 2022
23. Decision MadeCC/CHL/02/06

    New dance studio (alternative location to approved dance studio reference CC/CHL/26/05) and re-siting of netball/tennis courts

    Boswells School,Burnham Road,Springfield,Chelmsford,CM1 6LY

    Received 19 Dec 2005
24. Decision MadeESS/17/20/UTT/09/06

    Details pursuant to condition 9 (Noise monitoring results for July 2025) of Planning permission ESS/17/20/UTT. ESS/17/20/UTT extant permission for “Importation of 70,000m3 per annum of inert waste and the installation and use of a soils washing plant for the recycling of waste, together with associated access onto the highway and a separate silt press” originally permitted under ESS/45/15/UTT

    Highwood Quarry, Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, Essex, CM6 1SL

    Received 4 Jul 2025

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