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Nightflix, Former Site Of Sainsburys Supermarket, Tollgate West, Stanway CO3 8RH

192987Full (13 Week Determination)Refused
Full

Refused on 13 March 2020

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

A 2 year temporary Change of Use of vacant land to enable the installation for a Pop up Cinema with associated facilities which include a mobile projection unit, food stands, retail and WCs

Received
5 December 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Stanway
  1. Received5 Dec
  2. Validated10 Jan
  3. Consult.27 Feb
  4. Target10 Apr
  5. Decided13 Mar

Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Nightflix, Former Site Of Sainsburys Supermarket, Tollgate West, Stanway CO3 8RH. Colchester has handled 3,122 applications of this type. This one was decided in 99 days, 6 weeks longer than Colchester's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across Stanway. We hold 734 applications in total for the CO3 postcode area.

84% of full applications at Colchester City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CO3 8RH
Application type
Full (13 Week Determination)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Stanway

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 January 2020
Consultation expiry
27 February 2020
Consultation start
6 February 2020
Consultation end
27 February 2020
Target decision date
10 April 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

UPRN
100091469649
Documents
16

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

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© 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.

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