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Crown Quarry, Old Ipswich Road, Ardleigh, Colchester, CO7 8QR

ESS/07/17/TEN/SOScreening Opinion Request CC/ESSApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 8 February 2017

Council decision: EIA not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retrospective application for a change of use to allow importation of inert materials for treatment to produce recycled construction materials

Received
19 January 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received19 Jan
  2. Validated23 Jan
  3. Consult.19 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Feb

Decided in 16 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Crown Quarry, Old Ipswich Road, Ardleigh, Colchester, CO7 8QR. Essex has handled 44 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 2 weeks quicker than Essex's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,585 applications in total for the CO7 postcode area.

100% of outline 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
CO7 8QR
Application type
Screening Opinion Request CC/ESS
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 January 2017
Consultation expiry
19 January 2017
Consultation end
19 January 2017
Committee meeting
7 February 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
D K Symes Associates 39 Main Road Middleton Cheney Banbury OX17 2ND

Additional information

Documents
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, 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.

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© 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.

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    19 Jan

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