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Meadow Green Farm, Mount Bures Road, Wakes Colne Colchester CO6 2AP

200694Change of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 12 June 2020

Council decision: Approve ConditionalDelegated (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

Change of use to equestrian school and livery stables. Complete the conversion of hay barn to stables ¹ further alterations to proposed doors, openings and finishes of buildings now under construction and originally consented to under application no 1204

Received
23 March 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rural North
  1. Received23 Mar
  2. Validated27 Mar
  3. Consult.14 Jun
  4. Target12 Jun
  5. Decided12 Jun

Decided in 77 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Meadow Green Farm, Mount Bures Road, Wakes Colne Colchester CO6 2AP. Colchester has handled 118 applications of this type. This one was decided in 81 days, 4 weeks longer 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 2,522 applications in total for the CO6 postcode area.

83% of amendment applications at Colchester City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode
CO6 2AP
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Wakes Colne

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 March 2020
Consultation expiry
14 June 2020
Consultation start
29 May 2020
Consultation end
14 June 2020
Target decision date
12 June 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
77 days

Additional information

Documents
36

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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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2020
    1 Oct

    Application to discharge conditions 5, 6, 7, 11, 12 and 13 of planningpermission 200694

    PendingDischarge of conditions202220
  2. 2020
    23 Mar

    Change of use to equestrian school and livery stables. Complete the conversion of hay barn to stables ¹…

    This applicationApprovedAmendment200694

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