128 Highfields Road Witham Essex CM8 2HH

23/01136/PLDLawful Development Certificate(Proposed)Approved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 June 2023

Council decision: Application GRANTEDDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)

Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Application for Certificate of Lawfulness for a proposed development -Proposed outbuilding

Received: 29 April 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Braintree District Council
Ward: WITHAM WEST

ReceivedReceived29 Apr
ValidatedValidated29 Apr
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date24 Jun
DecidedDecided20 Jun

Decided in 52 days

About this application

This is an outline application for an outbuilding at 128 Highfields Road Witham Essex CM8 2HH. Braintree has handled 402 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 270 applications in total for the CM8 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode: CM8 2HH
Application type: Lawful Development Certificate(Proposed)
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Witham Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 29 April 2023
Target decision date: 24 June 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address: J Bell Design & Conservation LTD Suite G2 Holly House Business Centre 220-224 New London Road Chelmsford CM2 9AE

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 4

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, 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.

Source: Braintree

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