Widdington Pit, Hollow Road, Widdington, CB11 3SL

ESS/03/16/UTTRemoval/Variation of Condition ESSApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 7 April 2016

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Continuation of excavation of sand and restoration of land to agricultural use, including deposit of inert waste permitted by planning permission ESS/34/13/UTT without compliance with condition No. 35 (vehicular access), to remove the condition requiring construction of kerbing to restrict vehicles turning right at main access. (NB The timescales have been revised by condition. Cessation required by 30 April 2022 with restoration by 30 September 2023)

Received: 11 January 2016
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Essex County Council

ReceivedReceived11 Jan
ValidatedValidated11 Jan
Consult.Consultation18 Feb
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided7 Apr

Decided in 87 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Widdington Pit, Hollow Road, Widdington, CB11 3SL. Essex has handled 306 applications of this type. This one was decided in 87 days, 7 weeks longer than Essex's typical decision time. There have been 38 other applications at this address. We hold 772 applications in total for the CB11 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: CB11 3SL
Application type: Removal/Variation of Condition ESS
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 11 January 2016
Consultation expiry: 18 February 2016
Consultation end: 18 February 2016
Committee meeting: 4 April 2016

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Artisan PPS Ltd Berwick House Baylham Ipswich Suffolk IP6 8RF

Additional information

Documents: 10

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)

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

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© 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.

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