Cressing Primary School, Braintree Road, Cressing, Essex, CM77 8JE

CC/BTE/35/24Full App (Major PSI) CCApproved

Full

Approved on 23 January 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)23 conditions

Proposal

Single storey classroom block and single storey kitchen extension together with PV panels, additional car and cycle parking, new pedestrian entrance on the southern boundary and a change of use of land to educational use to develop a new playing field to the west, with associated ancillary works

Received: 5 July 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Essex County Council
Ward: Braintree Eastern ED

ReceivedReceived5 Jul
ValidatedValidated12 Aug
Consult.Consultation10 Sep
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided23 Jan

Decided in 164 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Cressing Primary School, Braintree Road, Cressing, Essex, CM77 8JE. Essex has handled 82 applications of this type. This one was decided in 202 days, 24 weeks longer than Essex's typical decision time. There have been 6 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 2 applications across Braintree Eastern ED. We hold 572 applications in total for the CM77 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: CM77 8JE
Application type: Full App (Major PSI) CC
Scale / size: Large
Parish: Cressing CP
District: Braintree District

Planning application dates

Date validated: 12 August 2024
Consultation expiry: 10 September 2024
Consultation start: 17 December 2024
Consultation end: 10 September 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Ingleton Wood 874 The Crescent Colchester Business Park Colchester CO4 9YQ

Additional information

Documents: 118

Site constraints

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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 and heritage coasts.

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