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Grove Farm, Grove Hill, Langham Colchester CO4 5PJ

260692Certificate of Lawful Use - ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 12 June 2026

Council decision: Refuse Certificate of Lawful Use or Development

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an Existing development to Erect a steel-framed and box profile steel-clad machinery shed for the storage and maintenance of tractors and other equipment used in land management. The building works

Received
16 April 2026
Ward
Rural North
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated16 Apr
  3. Consult.14 May
  4. Target11 Jun
  5. Decided12 Jun

Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Grove Farm, Grove Hill, Langham Colchester CO4 5PJ. Colchester has handled 118 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 115 applications across Rural North. We hold 1,001 applications in total for the CO4 postcode area.

83% of amendment 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 5PJ
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Langham

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 April 2026
Consultation expiry
14 May 2026
Consultation end
14 May 2026
Target decision date
11 June 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal result
l

Additional information

UPRN
100091241010

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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