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Land North Of Rayleigh Spur Roundabout A130 Benfleet Wickford Essex

25/00463/SCREENEIA - Screening requestWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 9 June 2025

Council decision: ClosedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

EIA Screening Opinion Request for Proposed development of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and Associated Infrastructure.

Received
2 April 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
1
Ward
Pitsea South East
  1. Received2 Apr
  2. Validated2 Apr
  3. Consult.30 Apr
  4. Target9 Jul
  5. Decided9 Jun

Decided in 68 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land North Of Rayleigh Spur Roundabout A130 Benfleet Wickford Essex. Basildon has handled 584 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 68 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 77 applications across Pitsea South East.

91% of outline 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
EIA - Screening request
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Bowers Gifford/Nth Ben Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 April 2025
Consultation expiry
30 April 2025
Consultation start
4 April 2025
Consultation end
30 April 2025
Last date for comments
30 April 2025
Target decision date
9 July 2025
Permission expires
9 June 2030

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Shanali Counsell
Statutory period
98 days

Additional information

Documents
1
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Green belt: Basildon

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

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© 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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