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Land at former Queen Street Bus Depot, Queen Street, Colchester, CO1 2PQ

CC/COL/61/25/4/01Submission of Details CC/ESSApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 29 April 2026

Council decision: Granted

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Details pursuant to condition 4 (Hoarding Details) of planning permission ref: CC/COL/61/25 (Temporary construction compound comprising office/welfare facilities, storage containers, acoustic enclosure, vehicle parking and other ancillary development)

Received
1 April 2026
  1. Received1 Apr
  2. Validated7 Apr
  3. Consult.23 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Apr

Decided in 22 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Land at former Queen Street Bus Depot, Queen Street, Colchester, CO1 2PQ. Essex has handled 306 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 7 days quicker than Essex's typical decision time. The site is in the Colchester Area 1 conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 164 applications in total for the CO1 postcode area.

97% of conditions 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
CO1 2PQ
Application type
Submission of Details CC/ESS
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 April 2026
Consultation expiry
23 April 2026
Consultation start
9 April 2026
Consultation end
23 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Thames Tower Station Road Reading RG1 1LX

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Colchester Area 1
  • Listed building: Grade II: 33 and 35, Queen StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, 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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    1 Apr

    Details pursuant to condition 4 (Hoarding Details) of planning permission ref: CC/COL/61/25

    This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditionsCC/COL/61/25/4/01
  2. 2026
    1 Apr

    Details pursuant to condition 6 (Biodiversity Enhancement Strategy) of planning permission ref: CC/COL/61/25

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsFiled alongsideCC/COL/61/25/6/01

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