Essex County Council
Planning applications.

1. Decision MadeESS/58/97/COL/R

   Review of Old Mineral Working

   Brooklands Brook Street,Fingringhoe Quarry,Ballast Quay,Fingringhoe,Colchester

   Received 13 Aug 1997
2. Decision MadeESS/13/12/COL

   Extension to the time limit for implementation of development (Condition 1) attached to previous permission ESS/40/08/COL for an additional 3 years for the Use of land as scrap metal waste recycling and tansfer facility involving the collection and receipt, sorting, storage and processing of metal and other material components and parts from the dismantling of vehicles and other non ferrous household items; the erection of a non ferrous warehouse building incorporating administrative staff officves and adjoining covered storage area; erection of a vehicle process building and scrap sorting bays; installation of weighbridge and scrap shearer plant plus formation of vehicle parking and hard standing areas at Haven Quay, Haven Road, Colchester

   Haven Quay, Quayside, Haven Road, Colchester, CO2 8HT

   Received 6 Feb 2012
3. Awaiting Sec of StateESS/24/25/BTE

   Outline planning application with all matters reserved (except for access) for the construction of a Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage Plant, a Heat Offtake Plant, an electrical switch room and electricity cables, associated external pipelines and cables, and landscaping works.

   Land at Rivenhall Airfield, Coggeshall Road, Braintree, CO5 9DF

   Received 12 Mar 2025
4. Decision MadeCC/BTE/35/24/17/01

   Details pursuant to Condition 17 (Habitat Management and Monitoring Plan) - CC/BTE/35/24: Single storey classroom block and single storey kitchen extension together with PV panels, additional car and cycle parking, new pedestrian entrance on the southern boundary and a change of use of land to educational use to develop a new playing field to the west, with associated ancillary works

   Cressing Primary School, Braintree Road, Cressing, Essex, CM77 8JE

   Received 18 Jul 2025
5. Decision MadeCC/ROC/35/08

   Erect new single storey extension to the rear of the existing school hall, form new entrance gateway, access ramp and stair with canopy to front and canopied ramp link between two existing buildings

   Rayleigh County Primary School,Love Lane,Rayleigh

   Received 1 Apr 2008
6. Application WithdrawnESS/77/20/CHL/10/1

   Details pursuant to Condition 10 – Public Right of Way crossing points for planning application ref: ESS/77/20/CHL (Sand and gravel quarry and associated works/development)

   Land south of A1060 (Salt’s Green), Chalk End, Roxwell, Chelmsford, CM1 4NJ

   Received 12 Oct 2022
7. Decision MadeESS/19/17/BTE/19/1

   Details pursuant to Conditions 17 (Highway Cleanliness); 18 (HGV Movements); 19 (Sheeting of vehicles); 20 (Vehicle Maintenance) and 24 (Hours of Operation) 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 8 Apr 2022
8. Decision MadeCC/ROC/106/20/8/1

   Details pursuant to Condition 8 - Landscape Scheme - (Extension to school to provide six additional classrooms, toilets, an office, plant and a storeroom to increase the school by one form entry (150 pupils), relocation of container, open linked canopy and the provision of a substation with associated works) CC/ROC/106/20

   The Sweyne Park School, Sir Walter Raleigh Drive Rayleigh SS6 9BZ

   Received 16 Mar 2021
9. Appeal DecidedESS/15/25/BAS

   Continuation of recontouring of the landfill to facilitate restoration permitted by ESS/49/14/BAS without compliance with condition 4 (completion timescales), condition 5 (removal of buildings and equipment) and condition 21 (restoration scheme) to delay restoration of the composting (and proposed waste wood processing) area and access road and weighbridge facilities by 10 years. ESS/49/14/BAS was a variation permission of ESS/35/06/BAS for recontouring of the landfill to facilitate restoration

   Pitsea Landfill Site, Pitsea Hall Lane, Pitsea, Essex, SS16 4UH

   Received 6 Feb 2025
10. Decision MadeCC/TEN/114/20/4/1

    Details pursuant to Condition 4 – Maintenance Plan - Demolition of the existing caretakers house and modular store. The erection of a two-storey standalone building comprising 12 classrooms and associated ancillary accommodation to accommodate an additional 300 pupils. The construction of an external corridor to the existing school, entrance canopy and associated refurbishment works to create a 1500 place secondary school with a sixth form CC/TEN/114/20

    The Colne Community School, Church Road, Brightlingsea, CO7 0QL

    Received 12 Mar 2021
11. Decision MadeCC/ROC/162/06

    The continued use of two relocatable classroom units until 31 December 2011 without complying with condition 1 (time limit) attached to planning permission CC/ROC/05/02

    Holt Farm County Junior School,Ashingdon Rd,Rochford,SS4 1RS

    Received 13 Dec 2006
12. Decision MadeCC/EPF/34/16

    Continued use of a temporary classbase unit until 31 August 2021 without compliance with condition 2 (time limit) attached to planning permission CC/EPF/31/11

    Limes Farm Junior School, Limes Avenue, Chigwell, Essex, IG7 5LP

    Received 20 Jun 2016
13. Decision MadeESS/78/20/BAS/SPO

    Proposed development of Archers Fields Energy Recovery Facility

    Archers Fields, Burnt Mills Industrial Estate, Basildon, SS13 1DN

    Received 16 Jun 2020
14. Decision MadeCC/HLW/32/22/5/1

    Details pursuant to Condition 5 – Soft Landscape Plan (The creation of a landscaped flood attenuation basin within the existing area of open space east of Guilfords to temporarily capture, store and regulate the downstream flow of surface water into Harlowbury Brook during heavy rainfall. Temporary construction access from Guilfords) CC/HLW/32/22

    Land to the east of Guilfords, Harlow Essex CM17 0HX

    Received 2 Nov 2022
15. Decision MadeESS/106/22/BTE/40/01

    Details pursuant to condition 40 (Archaeological Post Excavation Report and updated Project Design– Site A5) of ESS/106/22/BTE. ESS/106/22/BTE was a variation permission for "Extraction of 2 million tonnes of sand and gravel (from Site A5 as identified in the Essex Minerals Local Plan 2014) including the retention of the existing access onto the A120, the processing plant (including sand and gravel washing plant), office and weighbridge, ready mix concrete plant, bagging unit, DSM plant, water and silt management systems and extension of the internal haul road into Site A5 with restoration to agriculture and biodiversity (species rich grassland and wetland)"

    Bradwell Quarry, Church Road, Bradwell, Essex, CM77 8EP

    Received 17 Sept 2025
16. Decision MadeCC/CHL/90/06

    Extension to school entrance/office area

    Danbury Park County Primary School,Well Lane,Danbury,Chelmsford,CM3 4AB

    Received 7 Jun 2006
17. Decision MadeESS/17/18/TEN/LA1

    Details pursuant to Schedule 5 (Groundwater Protection) of the Legal Agreement associated with ESS/17/18/TEN: ‘Extraction of 3.8 million tonnes of sand and gravel as an easterly extension to the existing Wivenhoe Quarry, erection of sand and gravel processing plant and ancillary facilities, new vehicular access onto the B1027 Brightlingsea Road, and restoration to agriculture and low-level water-based nature conservation habitats, lowland meadow, woodland planting and hedgerow enhancement using approximately 1.2 million cubic metres of imported inert waste material.’

    Land to the South of Colchester Main Road (known as Sunnymead, Elmstead and Heath Farms), Alresford, Essex, C07 8DB

    Received 17 Aug 2021
18. Decision MadeESS/16/14/MAL/32/1

    Extension of time to existing quarry for an additional 15 years to 31st December 2029 and amendments to existing operation to allow for the importation of inert waste material for restoration.

    Asheldham Quarry, Southminster Road, Asheldham, Essex, CM0 7DZ

    Received 31 Mar 2015
19. Decision MadeESS/12/20/BTE/22/01

    Details pursuant to condition 22 (Noise monitoring – Oct/Nov 2022) of planning permission ESS/12/20/BTE. ESS/12/20/BTE was for “Extraction of 6.5 million tonnes of sand and gravel (from Site A7 as identified in the Essex Minerals Local Plan 2014) including the retention of the existing access onto the A120, the processing plant (including sand and gravel washing plant), office and weighbridge, ready mix concrete plant, bagging unit, DSM plant, water and silt management systems. In addition, extension of the internal haul road into Site A7 and access for private and support vehicles to the Site A7 contractors' compound via Woodhouse Lane and Cuthedge Lane. Restoration of Site A7 to agriculture and biodiversity (species rich grassland and wetland).”

    Bradwell Quarry, Church Road, Bradwell, CM77 8EP, and land south of Cuthedge Lane.

    Received 22 Dec 2022
20. Application WithdrawnESS/113/23/COL/54/1

    Details pursuant to Conditions 7 and 8 (Arboriculture); 10 (CEMP); 11 (Wildlife Lighting); 12 (BNG Plan); 13 (LEMP); 14 (Archaeology); 24 and 27 (Noise); 30 (Dust); 54 (Restoration); 56 (Landscaping); 57 (Agricultural Aftercare) and 58 (Amenity Aftercare) of planning permission ESS/113/23/COL that was for a western extension to Colchester Quarry at Land at Bellhouse Farm South

    Land at Bellhouse Farm South

    Received 30 Jan 2025
21. Decision MadeESS/07/20/TEN/SO

    EIA Screening Opinion: Continuation of winning and working of minerals associated with the construction of a public water storage reservoir without compliance with condition 2 (approved details), condition 34 (restoration/permission end date) and condition 39 (no additional buildings, fixed plant or machinery) attached to application ref: ESS/57/04/TEN to allow changes to operational areas, the phasing of the development and the shape and capacity of the completed reservoir; an additional period of time to complete the development; the provision of an additional car parking area; a new workshop building; and the installation and use of a bagging facility

    Crown Quarry (Wick Farm), Old Ipswich Road, Ardleigh, CO7 7QR

    Received 13 Jan 2020
22. Decision MadeESS/24/17/BTE/SPO

    EIA Scoping Opinion Request - Integrated Waste Management Facility – Proposed change of stack height from 85mAOD (35m above existing ground levels) to 105mAOD (55m above existing ground levels)

    Land at Rivenhall Airfield, Coggeshall Road (A120), Braintree CO5 9DF

    Received 7 Mar 2017
23. Decision MadeESS/68/20/MAL/40/04

    Details pursuant to Condition 40 – Aftercare Scheme (Years 3-4) - 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 16 Apr 2026
24. Decision MadeESS/30/16/TEN

    Application for the continued restoration of former quarry void by means of landfill

    Martells Quarry, Slough Lane, Ardleigh, CO7 7RU

    Received 7 Mar 2016

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