Land at Rayne Quarry, Dunmow Road, Braintree, Essex, Rayne.
Approved on 5 December 2025
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Details pursuant to Condition 28 (Noise Monitoring) of Planning permission ESS/19/17/BTE that was for “A new sand and gravel quarry at Broadfield Farm, to the west of Rayne, near Braintree, comprising the phased mineral extraction of some 3.66m tonnes of sand and gravel; the installation of a processing plant and ancillary buildings and infrastructure; the construction of a quarry access onto the B1256; the construction of a permanent screening landform; the construction of temporary screen mounds in defined locations around the perimeter of the quarry; the phased restoration of the extraction area using indigenous soil; overburden and clay from within the application site to a land use mixture of arable agriculture, lowland acid grassland, lowland meadow, woodland, lake and reedbeds; and public access via proposed public rights of way”.
- Received
- 11 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Essex County Council
- Ward
- Thaxted ED Three Fields with Great Notley ED
- ReceivedReceived11 Nov
- ValidatedValidated11 Nov
- Consult.Consultation27 Nov
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided5 Dec
Decided in 24 days (council typically 35)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Land at Rayne Quarry, Dunmow Road, Braintree, Essex, Rayne.. Essex has handled 308 applications of this type. This one was decided in 24 days, 11 days quicker than Essex's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 4 applications across Thaxted ED Three Fields with Great Notley ED.
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
- Application type
- Submission of Details CC/ESS
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Rayne CP Felsted CP Great Saling CP
- District
- Braintree District Uttlesford District
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 27 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 13 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 27 November 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Cecil House Foster Street Harlow Common CM17 9HY
Additional information
- Documents
- 4
Site constraints
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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202620 Mar
Details pursuant to Condition 28 (Noise Monitoring) of Planning permission ESS/19/17/BTE
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/19/17/BTE/28/14 - 202521 May
Details pursuant to Condition 28 (Noise Monitoring) of Planning permission ESS/19/17/BTE
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/19/17/BTE/28/12 - 202419 Jan
Details pursuant to Condition 33 (Dust Monitoring) of Planning permission ESS/19/17/BTE
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/19/17/BTE/33/15
Source: Essex
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