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Barn Cottage, Vinesse Road, Little Horkesley Colchester CO6 4DU

260697Certificate of Lawful Use - ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 30 June 2026

Council decision: Approve Certificate of Lawful Use or Development

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

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for existing occupation of dwelling for persons not employed for agricultural purposes contrary to condition 2 of planning permission COL/93/0953

Received
17 April 2026
Ward
Rural North
  1. Received17 Apr
  2. Validated17 Apr
  3. Consult.15 May
  4. Target30 Jun
  5. Decided30 Jun

Decided in 74 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Barn Cottage, Vinesse Road, Little Horkesley Colchester CO6 4DU. Colchester has handled 118 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than Colchester's typical decision time. 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.

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
CO6 4DU
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Little Horkesley

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 April 2026
Consultation expiry
15 May 2026
Consultation end
15 May 2026
Target decision date
30 June 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Laura Pike
Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal result
l

Additional information

UPRN
100091246342

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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