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Wimpole Lodge, 22A Wimpole Road, Colchester Essex CO1 2DE

251271Certificate of Lawful Use - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 28 August 2025

Council decision: Approve Certificate of Lawful Use or Development

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a proposed installation of 12 solar panels

Received
16 June 2025
Ward
New Town & Christ Church
  1. Received16 Jun
  2. Validated7 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target1 Sep
  5. Decided28 Aug

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Wimpole Lodge, 22A Wimpole Road, Colchester Essex CO1 2DE. Colchester has handled 293 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 2 weeks longer than Colchester's typical decision time. The site is in the New Town conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across New Town & Christ Church. We hold 164 applications in total for the CO1 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
CO1 2DE
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Colchester

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 July 2025
Target decision date
1 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal result
l

Additional information

UPRN
100091456641
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: New Town
  • 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 (22)

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, 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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© 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.

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