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Rayne Quarry, Dunmow Road, Braintree, Essex, Rayne

ESS/19/17/BTE/33/24Submission of Details CC/ESSApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 May 2026

Council decision: Granted

Proposal

Details pursuant to Condition 33 (Dust 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
15 April 2026
Ward
Thaxted ED Three Fields with Great Notley ED
  1. Received15 Apr
  2. Validated13 Apr
  3. Consult.29 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 May

Decided in 30 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Rayne Quarry, Dunmow Road, Braintree, Essex, Rayne. Essex has handled 307 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 5 days quicker than Essex's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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
Felsted CP Great Saling CP Rayne CP
District
Braintree District Uttlesford District

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 April 2026
Consultation expiry
29 April 2026
Consultation start
15 April 2026
Consultation end
29 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Cecil House Foster Street Harlow Common Harlow Essex CM17 9HY

Additional information

Documents
4

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.

Source: Essex

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