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Land at Sheepcotes Farm, Sheepcotes Lane, Little Waltham, CM3 3LU

ESS/01/18/CHL/19/5Submission of Details CC/ESSApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 18 February 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Noise monitoring pursuant to condition 19 of planning permission ref: ESS/01/18/CHL (The construction of an agricultural reservoir involving the extraction, processing and exportation of sand and gravel and soils; the erection and use of an on-site processing plant with ancillary facilities; and highway and access improvements. Together with the construction of an associated irrigation pipeline from the proposed abstraction point (River Chelmer at Langleys, Great Waltham))

Received
20 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Broomfield and Writtle ED
  1. Received20 Jan
  2. Validated22 Jan
  3. Consult.5 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided18 Feb

Decided in 27 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Land at Sheepcotes Farm, Sheepcotes Lane, Little Waltham, CM3 3LU. Essex has handled 308 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 6 days quicker than Essex's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Broomfield and Writtle ED. We hold 2,985 applications in total for the CM3 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
CM3 3LU
Application type
Submission of Details CC/ESS
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Little Waltham CP
District
Chelmsford District

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 January 2026
Consultation expiry
5 February 2026
Consultation start
22 January 2026
Consultation end
5 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Crown Business Centre Old Ipswich Road Ardleigh Colchester Essex CO7 7QR

Additional information

Documents
3

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)

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.

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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