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8 New Church Road, West Bergholt Essex CO6 3JF

231166Certificate of Lawful Use - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 1 September 2023

Council decision: Approve Certificate of Lawful Use or Development

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a proposed sitingof a mobile home for use ancillary to the main dwelling.

Received
12 May 2023
Ward
Lexden & Braiswick
  1. Received12 May
  2. Validated12 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target1 Sep
  5. Decided1 Sep

Decided in 112 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 8 New Church Road, West Bergholt Essex CO6 3JF. Colchester has handled 293 applications of this type. This one was decided in 112 days, 8 weeks longer than Colchester's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 56 applications across Lexden & Braiswick. We hold 2,522 applications in total for the CO6 postcode area.

75% of outline 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
CO6 3JF
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
West Bergholt

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 May 2023
Target decision date
1 September 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
112 days

Appeal

Appeal result
l

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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.

Source: Colchester

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