Thrift Farm House, Horkesley Hill, Great Horkesley Colchester CO6 4JP
Approved on 22 August 2025
Council decision: Approve Certificate of Lawful Use or Development
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Proposal
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a Proposed use or development to install solar panels to the barn roof
- Received
- 23 May 2025
- Council
- Colchester City Council
- Ward
- Rural North
- ReceivedReceived23 May
- ValidatedValidated24 Jun
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date2 Sep
- DecidedDecided22 Aug
Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Thrift Farm House, Horkesley Hill, Great Horkesley Colchester CO6 4JP. Colchester has handled 293 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than Colchester's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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.
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 4JP
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Great Horkesley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 June 2025
- Target decision date
- 2 September 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 70 days
Appeal
- Appeal result
- l
Additional information
- UPRN
- 100091473301
- Documents
- 16
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale
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, conservation 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, 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.
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