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Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Street, Colchester CO1 1JN

250384Listed BuildingApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 26 September 2025

Council decision: Approve Conditional7 conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

The work consists of the first stage of external repairs comprising: strip and re-roof 3 roof slopes and small vestry roof, replace all associated lead valleys, abutment flashings and flashings and associated timber linings; tower roof slate repairs; s

Received
26 February 2025
Ward
Castle
  1. Received26 Feb
  2. Validated26 Feb
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target29 Sep
  5. Decided26 Sep

Decided in 212 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a roof replacement at Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Street, Colchester CO1 1JN. Colchester has handled 197 applications of this type. This one was decided in 212 days, 22 weeks longer than Colchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Colchester Area 1 conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across Castle. We hold 164 applications in total for the CO1 postcode area.

90% of heritage 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
CO1 1JN
Application type
Listed Building
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Colchester

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 February 2025
Consultation expiry
19 March 2025
Consultation end
19 March 2025
Target decision date
29 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
215 days

Appeal

Appeal result
l

Additional information

Documents
31

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Colchester Area 1
  • Listed building: Grade II: 7 and 7A Trinity StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, 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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