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Stanway Evangelical Church, Chapel Road, Stanway CO3 0PU

251281Class J installation or alteration of solar equip on non-domestic premWithdrawn
Prior approval

Withdrawn on 27 October 2025

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed:Installation, of Solar Photovoltaics (PV) equipment on the Roofs of Non-domestic Buildings The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)(England) Order 2015(asamended)

Received
11 June 2025
Ward
Stanway
  1. Received11 Jun
  2. Validated9 Jul
  3. Consult.30 Jul
  4. Target13 Sep
  5. Decided27 Oct

Decided in 110 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a solar installation at Stanway Evangelical Church, Chapel Road, Stanway CO3 0PU. Colchester has handled 4,828 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 138 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Stanway. We hold 737 applications in total for the CO3 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
CO3 0PU
Application type
Class J installation or alteration of solar equip on non-domestic prem
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Stanway

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 July 2025
Consultation expiry
30 July 2025
Consultation end
30 July 2025
Target decision date
13 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
66 days

Appeal

Appeal result
l

Appeal history

3372478
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 9 January 2026Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Refusal

Additional information

UPRN
100091469269
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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

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.

Source: Colchester

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