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Place Farm, Place Farm Lane, Doddinghurst, Essex, CM15 0JA

ESS/03/26/BRWFull Planning Application ESSRefused
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Refused on 9 October 2026

4 reasons for refusal

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Proposal

Retrospective change of use of land and buildings to an inert waste recycling facility including the importation, processing and storage of inert waste

Received
28 January 2026
Ward
Brentwood Rural ED
  1. Received28 Jan
  2. Validated7 Apr
  3. Consult.14 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Oct

Decided in 185 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Place Farm, Place Farm Lane, Doddinghurst, Essex, CM15 0JA. Essex has handled 82 applications of this type. This one was decided in 254 days, 31 weeks longer than Essex's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Brentwood Rural ED. We hold 780 applications in total for the CM15 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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Why it was refused

  1. The site is not allocated for waste use within the Essex and Southend-on-Sea Waste Local Plan (2017). The proposal would be inappropriate development and there are no proven very special circumstances that outweigh the harm to the Green Belt contrary to Policy 10 of the Essex and Southend-on-Sea Waste Local Plan (2017), Policy MG02 of the Brentwood Local Plan and policy GB6 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2026).
  2. Based on the criteria in Policy 6 of the Essex and Southend-on-Sea Waste Local Plan (2017), the development is considered incongruous to the countryside/semi- rural area, in respect of the intensity and nature of the operations proposed. It is not considered that the benefits of the proposed development outweigh the harms identified to the character of the area, contrary to Policies 6 and 10 of the Essex and Southend-on-Sea Waste Local Plan (2017), Policy S5 of the Essex Minerals Local Plan (2014), Policies BE14 and NE02 of the Brentwood Local Plan (2022) and the National Planning Policy Framework (2026).
  3. Sufficient information has not been submitted to demonstrate that the proposed development would not result in unacceptable adverse noise impacts on nearby sensitive receptors, contrary to Policy 10 of the Essex and Southend-on-Sea Waste Local Plan (2017), Policy BE14 of the Brentwood Local Plan (2022), Policy P3 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2026) and the National Planning Policy for Waste (2014).
  4. Sufficient information has not been submitted to demonstrate that the proposed development could accommodate adequate dust mitigation and site management measures that would ensure no unacceptable adverse dust impacts on nearby sensitive receptors, contrary to Policy 10 of the Essex and Southend-on-Sea Waste Local Plan (2017), Policies NE08 and BE14 of the Brentwood Local Plan (2022), Policy P3 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2026) and the National Planning Policy for Waste (2014).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
CM15 0JA
Application type
Full Planning Application ESS
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Doddinghurst CP
District
Brentwood District

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 April 2026
Consultation expiry
14 May 2026
Consultation start
22 April 2026
Consultation end
14 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Old Bank Chambers London Road CROWBOROUGH TN6 2TT

Planning decision

Case officer
Tom Sycamore

Additional information

Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Brentwood
  • 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.

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