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Electricity Sub Station, Severalls Industrial Park, Stephenson Road, Colchester CO4 9QP.

232193Full (8 Week Determination)Approved
Full

Approved on 10 November 2023

Council decision: Approve Conditional

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Construction and operation of a micro energy storage facility.

Received
15 September 2023
Ward
Highwoods
  1. Received15 Sep
  2. Validated15 Sep
  3. Consult.16 Oct
  4. Target10 Nov
  5. Decided10 Nov

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Electricity Sub Station, Severalls Industrial Park, Stephenson Road, Colchester CO4 9QP.. Colchester has handled 3,122 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 5 applications across Highwoods. We hold 1,001 applications in total for the CO4 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
CO4 9QP
Application type
Full (8 Week Determination)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Colchester

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 September 2023
Consultation expiry
16 October 2023
Consultation end
16 October 2023
Target decision date
10 November 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal result
l

Additional information

UPRN
100091470415
Documents
11

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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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Colchester

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