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Tavern Garage, The Causeway, Maldon, Essex, CM9 4LJ

ESS/17/26/MALFull Planning Application ESSApproved
Full

Approved on 27 July 2026

Council decision: Granted8 conditions

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

Proposal

Temporary change of use of part of the site to a waste transfer station for domestic, commercial and industrial waste together with associated development (retrospective)

Received
4 March 2026
Ward
Maldon Town and Heybridge ED
  1. Received4 Mar
  2. Validated17 Apr
  3. Consult.11 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Jul

Decided in 101 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Tavern Garage, The Causeway, Maldon, Essex, CM9 4LJ. Essex has handled 82 applications of this type. This one was decided in 145 days, 16 weeks longer than Essex's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 2 applications across Maldon Town and Heybridge ED. We hold 1,153 applications in total for the CM9 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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Application details

Postcode
CM9 4LJ
Application type
Full Planning Application ESS
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Maldon CP
District
Maldon District

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 April 2026
Consultation expiry
11 June 2026
Consultation start
21 May 2026
Consultation end
11 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Elmfield Layer Breton Hill Layer Breton Colchester CO2 0PR

Additional information

Documents
18

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 3: High 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    4 Mar

    Temporary change of use of part of the site to a waste transfer station for domestic, commercial and…

    This applicationApprovedFullESS/17/26/MAL
  2. 2026
    4 Mar

    EIA Screening Opinion: Temporary change of use of part of the site to a waste transfer station for domestic…

    ApprovedScreening Opinion Request CC/ESSFiled alongsideESS/17/26/MAL/SO

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