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The Hillway Mountnessing Essex CM4 9AY

26/00202/S191Certificate of Lawfulness (existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 1 May 2026

Council decision: LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for the Use of the land for B8 open storage, haulage operations, and associated commercial yard activities.

Received
23 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ingatestone, Fryerning And Mountnessing
  1. Received23 Feb
  2. Validated23 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target1 May
  5. Decided1 May

Decided in 67 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Hillway Mountnessing Essex CM4 9AY. Brentwood has handled 167 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 11 days longer than Brentwood's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 109 applications across Ingatestone, Fryerning And Mountnessing. We hold 872 applications in total for the CM4 postcode area.

89% of amendment applications at Brentwood Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CM4 9AY
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (existing)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Mountnessing

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 February 2026
Target decision date
1 May 2026
Permission expires
1 May 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ceres Property
Agent address
Ceres Property The Old Dairy Manor Farm Horton-cum-Studley OX33 1BG United Kingdom
Applicant company

Bushcade Limited

Company number 02669541

Status
Active
Type
Private limited company
Incorporated
9 Dec 1991 (34 years old)
Nature of business
Construction of other civil engineering projects; Site preparation; Freight transport by road
Registered office
Chelmsford
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Company information from Companies House.

Planning decision

Statutory period
67 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14670330
Comments
0
Documents
10
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: BrentwoodPart of the site
  • 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.

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