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Vange Primary School, London Road, Vange, Essex, SS16 4QA

CC/BAS/46/25Full Planning Application CCApproved
Full

Approved on 2 February 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)17 conditions

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

Proposal

Construction of a multifunctional, landscaped flood attenuation basin including fencing and ancillary development

Received
27 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Basildon Westley Heights ED
  1. Received27 May
  2. Validated13 Jun
  3. Consult.16 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided2 Feb

Decided in 234 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Vange Primary School, London Road, Vange, Essex, SS16 4QA. Essex has handled 82 applications of this type. This one was decided in 251 days, 31 weeks longer than Essex's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 768 applications in total for the SS16 postcode area.

96% of full applications at Essex County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 5 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SS16 4QA
Application type
Full Planning Application CC
Scale / size
Small
District
Basildon District

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 June 2025
Consultation expiry
16 July 2025
Consultation start
11 December 2025
Consultation end
16 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
County Hall Market Road Chelmsford Essex CM1 1QH

Additional information

Documents
46

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Green belt: Basildon
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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 and heritage coasts.

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: Essex

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