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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Essex County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.

Collected application statistics

Collected records · All available dates
8,262Searchable applications
17Recorded as pending
97%Approval rate · 7,039 approved or refused records
214Refused applications

6,825 approved · 214 refused · 438 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Dec 1938 to 5 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.

Local planning information

Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026

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  1. Decision MadeCC/COL/37/99

    Continued retention of one relocatable classroom for education purposes

    Prettygate Junior School,Plume Avenue,Colchester,CO3 4PH

    Received 28 May 1999
  2. Decision MadeCC/UTT/186/02

    Replacement perimeter fencing to Bury Water Lane frontage

    Newport Highways Depot,Bury Water Lane,Newport,Saffron Walden

    Received 2 Dec 2002
  3. Decision MadeESS/18/09/TEN

    Change of use from commercial warehousing to waste transfer facility, installation of weighbridge, change to side elevation of building and formation of widened vehicular access

    Chaston Business Centre,112 Oxford Road,Clacton-on-Sea,CO15 3TH

    Received 17 Feb 2009
  4. Decision MadeESS/39/14/BTE/25/1

    Extraction of an estimated 2.5 million tonnes of sand and gravel together with the provision of an new access from Little Braxted Lane; and the installation/construction and operation of primary processing and ancillary facilities comprising washing and bagging plant, silt lagoons, weighbridge, site management office, mess room and maintenance workshop; with restoration to agriculture and water based nature conservation habitats

    Land at Colemans Farm, Colemans Farm, Little Braxted Lane, Rivenhall, Witham, CM8 3EX

    Received 23 Jun 2016
  5. Decision MadeESS/17/20/UTT/09/05

    Details pursuant to condition 9 (Noise monitoring results for January 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 3 Jun 2025
  6. Decision MadeESS/16/20/UTT/NMA1

    Non-Material Amendment to the wording of Condition 3 of ESS/16/20/UTT to allow amended details for the site access road to accommodate an additional cattlegrid.

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

    Received 28 Aug 2025
  7. Decision MadeESS/42/01/COL

    Waste transfer Station - Permanent continuation of use without compliance with condition 1 (time limit)

    Tiptree Basketworks & Woodyard,Grange Road,Tiptree,Colchester,CO5 0QQ

    Received 24 Sept 2001
  8. Decision MadeESS/12/07/MAL

    Certificate of Lawfulness for an Existing Use for soils importation, stockpiling, screening, storage and distribution operations at Curry Farm, Bradwell-on-Sea

    Curry Farm,Mill End,Bradwell-on-Sea,Maldon,CM0 7HL

    Received 26 Mar 2007
  9. Decision MadeESS/14/22/BTE

    Continued operation of the Waste Transfer Station without compliance with condition 2 (approved details) and condition 3 (hours) attached to permission ref: ESS/02/19/BTE to allow an increase in overnight parking of HGVs and trailers from two to six and to allow operational hours to begin at 06:00 hours Monday to Sunday and Bank / Public Holidays

    Braintree Waste Transfer Station, Cordons Farm, Long Green, Cressing, CM77 8DL

    Received 15 Feb 2022
  10. Decision MadeESS/35/11/BRW

    Use of the site for the storage and crushing of materials including erection of a screen wall, raising the existing western boundary wall and bunker wall to 4.0 metres and retention of wheel washing facilities, weighbridge and offices

    24-26 Childerditch Industrial Estate,Childerditch Hall Drive,Brentwood,CM13 2HD

    Received 13 Jun 2011
  11. Application WithdrawnCC/CHL/100/06

    Installation of a lift shaft, disabled changing room, disabled W.C.s and new Gym Store

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

    Received 29 Jun 2006
  12. Decision MadeCC/TEN/13/06

    Construction of 30m x 3.5m canopy with mono pitch roof to the south west of the school to provide shelter for paretns and pupils

    Brightlingsea County Infant & Junior School,Eastern Road,Brightlingsea,CO7 0HU

    Received 16 Jan 2006
  13. Decision MadeESS/03/18/BTE/NMA1

    Non material amendment to condition 9 (working hours) ESS/03/18/BTE to allow essential maintenance works within the plant area on Thursday 2nd June to Sunday 5th June 2022.

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

    Received 17 May 2022
  14. Decision MadeESS/08/10/TEN-21d

    Continuation of sand and gravel extraction to facilitate construction of an agricultural reservoir without compliance with Condition 3 (Permission end date 3 April 2010) of approved planning application ESS/64/06/TEN to allow an extension of time until 3 April 2011 to complete extraction and site restoration

    Fen Farm, Elmstead Market, Colchester, Essex

    Received 23 Mar 2015
  15. Decision MadeCC/EPF/46/17/7/1

    Details pursuant to Condition 7 – Scheme to minimise the risk of off-site flooding – CC/EPF/46/17 – (The construction of a new English block, a new sports block, extensions to existing school buildings (to facilitate expansion of the existing school to a 9FE school) and provision of a temporary construction access)

    West Hatch High School, High Road, CHIGWELL, IG7 5BT

    Received 13 Mar 2018
  16. Decision MadeESS/47/94/TENREV2

    Sand & Gravel extraction with restoration

    Brightlingsea Quarry,Moverons Lane,Brightlingsea,CO7 0SB

    Received 25 Mar 1997
  17. Decision MadeCC/ROC/136/06

    Provision of external platform access lift

    COMMUNITY ROOM/YOUTH CENTRE,The Greensward College,Greensward Lane,Hockley,SS5 5HG

    Received 12 Oct 2006
  18. Decision MadeESS/07/07/HLW

    Change of use from Railway 'Goods' land to a recycling and waste transfer facility to process dry inert & non-hazardous wastes into recycled materials

    Railway Land,North Place,Edinburgh Way,Temple Fields,Harlow

    Received 22 Feb 2007
  19. Decision MadeCC/UTT/118/07

    The temporary location of a new relocatable classroom on the school site for a period of 3 years

    School Buildings,Debden C of E Primary School,High Street,Debden,Saffron Walden,CB11 3LE

    Received 2 Aug 2007
  20. Decision MadeESS/61/19/TEN/42/3

    Details pursuant to Condition 42 (Noise Monitoring) of planning permission ESS/61/19/TEN that was for the Continuation of use of land for mineral extraction and infilling without compliance with Condition 6 (Approved Details) of planning permission ref no: ESS/53/17/TEN (granted "To enable the importation of materials from time to time to meet product imbalances and to offer a fuller product portfolio to customers without compliance with Condition 7 (Importation Restriction) of planning permission ESS/46/14/TEN to enable infilling to run concurrent with mineral extraction") to accommodate remediation works required for slope stability; a Planting Establishment and Management scheme and retrospective permission for the provision of a water tank

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

    Received 18 Jan 2021
  21. Decision MadeESS/74/21/CHL/SO

    EIA SCREENING OPINION - Proposed importation of approximately 85,000 tonnes of inert waste material (excavation soils) to stabilise former quarry face and satisfactorily restore former mineral site to landscape grassland and ponds, and associated improvements to existing site access to facilitate delivery of waste material.

    Land at Russell Green, Boreham Road, Chelmsford, CM3 3BB

    Received 28 Jul 2021
  22. Decision MadeCC/COL/36/18

    Installation of new modular classroom building and extension to existing car park

    Monkwick Junior School, School Road, Colchester, CO2 8NN

    Received 19 Sept 2018
  23. Decision MadeESS/28/23/TEN/54/2

    Details pursuant to Condition 54 – Notification of Soil Stripping (Phase 1) – ESS/28/23/TEN: Continuation of 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 without compliance with Conditions 2 (Approved details), 23 (Restoration Phasing Plan), 28 (Highway improvements and site access road) and 35 (Visibility splays) attached to permission ref ESS/17/18/TEN to allow the extraction and storage on site of sand and gravel (no export of mineral or import of waste) prior to the establishment of the approved access and highway works.

    Land to the South of Colchester Main Road (known as Sunnymead, Elmstead and Heath Farms), Nr Wivenhoe, Alresford, CO7 8DB

    Received 25 Jun 2024
  24. Decision MadeCC/EPF/46/17/SO

    The construction of a new English block, a new sports block, extensions to existing school buildings (to facilitate expansion of the existing school to a 9FE school) and provision of a temporary construction access

    West Hatch High School, High Road, Chidwell, IG7 5BT

    Received 18 Sept 2017

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