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Birch Airfield, Blind Lane, Birch, Essex, CO5 9XE

ESS/102/22/COL/SOScreening Opinion Request CC/ESSApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 16 December 2022

Council decision: EIA not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Screening opinion: Relocation of the existing weighbridge and construction of a new weighbridge office.

Received
8 December 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Stanway and Pyefleet ED
  1. Received8 Dec
  2. Validated8 Dec
  3. Consult.8 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Dec

Decided in 8 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an outline application at Birch Airfield, Blind Lane, Birch, Essex, CO5 9XE. Essex has handled 44 applications of this type. This one was decided in 8 days, 4 weeks quicker than Essex's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 11 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 4 applications across Stanway and Pyefleet ED. We hold 1,568 applications in total for the CO5 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
CO5 9XE
Application type
Screening Opinion Request CC/ESS
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Birch CP
District
Colchester District

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 December 2022
Consultation expiry
8 December 2022
Consultation start
8 December 2022
Consultation end
8 December 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
iCon Innovation Centre Eastern Way Daventry NN11 0QB

Additional information

Documents
7

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

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.

Planning history at this site

11 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    8 Jul

    Details pursuant to condition 25 (Written Scheme of Investigation) of planning permission ref: ESS/31/24/COL

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/31/24/COL/25/02
  2. 2026
    8 Jul

    Details pursuant to condition 26 (Post-Excavation Assessment) of planning permission ref: ESS/31/24/COL

    Partial DischargeDischarge of conditionsESS/31/24/COL/26/01
  3. 2025
    20 Nov

    Details pursuant to condition 1 (Commencement of development) attached to planning permission ref…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/31/24/COL/1/1
  4. 2025
    1 Apr

    Biodiversity Gain Plan pursuant to planning permission ref: ESS/31/24/COL

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/31/24/COL/BGP1
  5. 2025
    21 Mar

    Details pursuant to condition 15 (Landscape Scheme) of planning permission ref: ESS/31/24/COL

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/31/24/COL/15/01
  6. 2025
    21 Mar

    Details pursuant to condition 32 (Preliminary Risk Assessment) of planning permission ref: ESS/31/24/COL

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/31/24/COL/32/01

Source: Essex

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