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Highwood Quarry, Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, Essex, CM6 1SL

ESS/16/20/UTT/66/01Submission of Details CC/ESSApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 29 August 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Details pursuant to condition 66 (Annual working and reclamation scheme 2023) of ESS/20/18/UTT. ESS/20/18/UTT was a variation, the original permission was ESS/65/06/UTT for “Winning and working of sand and gravel, erection of a concrete plant, workshop and ancillary buildings, and the importation and treatment of inert material to produce secondary aggregate and reclamation material for progressive restoration to landscaped farmland”

Received
4 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Dunmow ED Thaxted ED
  1. Received4 Aug
  2. Validated4 Aug
  3. Consult.25 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Aug

Decided in 25 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Highwood Quarry, Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, Essex, CM6 1SL. Essex has handled 307 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 10 days quicker than Essex's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,064 applications in total for the CM6 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
CM6 1SL
Application type
Submission of Details CC/ESS
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Little Canfield CP Little Easton CP Great Dunmow CP
District
Uttlesford District

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 August 2023
Consultation expiry
25 August 2023
Consultation start
11 August 2023
Consultation end
25 August 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
B Lodge Highwood Quarry Takeley Essex CM6 1SL

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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.

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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