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Pitsea Landfill Site Pitsea Hall Lane Pitsea Essex

23/00310/ESSEssex County Council applicationWithdrawn
Discharge / amendments

Withdrawn on 26 May 2023

Council decision: Closed

Proposal

ESS/07/23/BAS/SO - Continuation of development permitted by ESS/60/17/BAS without compliance with condition 1 (Timescale's for cessation of use and completion of restoration) to allow retention of the composting facility. Planning permission ESS/60/17/BAS was a variation of an earlier permission the original permission being ESS/67/96/BAS which was for "Waste composting facility, including storage and reception buildings, composting tunnels, biofilter, air treatment room and office, laboratory."

Received
2 March 2023
Public comments
1
Ward
Pitsea South East
  1. Received2 Mar
  2. Validated2 Mar
  3. Consult.27 Mar
  4. Target30 Mar
  5. Decided26 May

Decided in 85 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Pitsea Landfill Site Pitsea Hall Lane Pitsea Essex. Basildon has handled 13 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 85 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 77 applications across Pitsea South East.

90% of all applications at Basildon Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Essex County Council application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bowers Gifford/Nth Ben Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 March 2023
Consultation expiry
27 March 2023
Consultation start
3 March 2023
Consultation end
27 March 2023
Last date for comments
27 March 2023
Target decision date
30 March 2023
Permission expires
26 May 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
2
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: Basildon
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Basildon

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