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Hill House, Grove Hill, Langham Colchester CO4 5PJ

071717Certificate of LawfulnessApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 22 July 2007

Council decision: Approve Certificate of Lawful Use or Development

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for existing use of dwelling not in compliance with condition 3 of application no. COL/1108/85 (occupationof the dwelling hereby permitted shall be limited to persons wholly ormainly employed or last employed locally in agriculture as defined in Section 290(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 or in forestry, or a dependent residing with such a person, including a widow or widower of the former occupier).

Received
19 June 2007
Ward
Rural North
  1. Received19 Jun
  2. Validated19 Jun
  3. Consult.13 Jul
  4. Target15 Aug
  5. Decided22 Jul

Decided in 33 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Hill House, Grove Hill, Langham Colchester CO4 5PJ. Colchester has handled 4,828 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 3 weeks quicker than Colchester's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 115 applications across Rural North. We hold 1,001 applications in total for the CO4 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
CO4 5PJ
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Langham

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 June 2007
Consultation expiry
13 July 2007
Consultation end
13 July 2007
Target decision date
15 August 2007

Planning decision

Statutory period
57 days

Additional information

UPRN
100091241011
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. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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.

© 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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