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The Hollies, Church Road, Boxted Essex CO4 5TG

250930Full (8 Week Determination)Approved
Full

Approved on 23 July 2025

Council decision: Approve Conditional

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

Proposal

Add a pre-built Shephard's Hut to garden from for home office use and occasional holiday rental

Received
3 May 2025
Ward
Rural North
  1. Received3 May
  2. Validated27 May
  3. Consult.18 Jun
  4. Target23 Jul
  5. Decided23 Jul

Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at The Hollies, Church Road, Boxted Essex CO4 5TG. Colchester has handled 3,122 applications of this type. This one was decided in 81 days, 4 weeks longer than Colchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Boxted conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. 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 5TG
Application type
Full (8 Week Determination)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Boxted

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 May 2025
Consultation expiry
18 June 2025
Consultation end
18 June 2025
Target decision date
23 July 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
57 days

Additional information

UPRN
100091239155
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.

  • Conservation area: Boxted
  • National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale
  • 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, 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, 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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