Birch Airfield, Blind Lane, Birch, Essex, CO5 9XE
Approved on 12 November 2025
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Details pursuant to condition 20 (Habitat Management and Monitoring Plan) of planning permission ref: ESS/31/24/COL (Change of use of agricultural land to a waste management use and construction of a concrete pad to enable the extension of green waste open windrow composting operations, topsoil blending and storage operations, construction of a new surface water attenuation lagoon and perimeter landscaped soil bunds)
- Received
- 21 March 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Essex County Council
- ReceivedReceived21 Mar
- ValidatedValidated8 Sep
- Consult.Consultation25 Apr
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided12 Nov
Decided in 65 days (council typically 35)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Birch Airfield, Blind Lane, Birch, Essex, CO5 9XE. Essex has handled 308 applications of this type. This one was decided in 236 days, 29 weeks longer than Essex's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 11 other applications at this address. We hold 1,568 applications in total for the CO5 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
- CO5 9XE
- Application type
- Submission of Details CC/ESS
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 25 April 2025
- Consultation start
- 11 April 2025
- Consultation end
- 25 April 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- iCon Innovation Centre Eastern Way Daventry NN11 0QB
Additional information
- Documents
- 17
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.
Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences
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© 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.
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Associated applications
- 20268 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 - 20268 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 - 20251 Apr
Biodiversity Gain Plan pursuant to planning permission ref: ESS/31/24/COL
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/31/24/COL/BGP1 - 202521 Mar
Details pursuant to condition 15 (Landscape Scheme) of planning permission ref: ESS/31/24/COL
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/31/24/COL/15/01 - 202521 Mar
Details pursuant to condition 20 (Habitat Management and Monitoring Plan) of planning permission ref…
This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/31/24/COL/20/01 - 202521 Mar
Details pursuant to condition 22 (Forming, planting and maintenance of soil bunds) of planning permission…
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/31/24/COL/22/01 - 202521 Mar
Details pursuant to condition 25 (Written Scheme of Investigation) of planning permission ref: ESS/31/24/COL
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/31/24/COL/25/01 - 202521 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 - 202413 Jun
Change of use of agricultural land to a waste management use and construction of a concrete pad to enable the…
ApprovedFull Planning Application ESSPart ofESS/31/24/COL - 202413 Jun
Change of use of agricultural land to a waste management use and construction of a concrete pad to enable the…
ApprovedScreening Opinion Request CC/ESSFiled alongsideESS/31/24/COL/SO
Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202520 Nov
Details pursuant to condition 1 (Commencement of development) attached to planning permission ref…
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/31/24/COL/1/1 - 20228 Dec
Screening opinion: Relocation of the existing weighbridge and construction of a new weighbridge office.
ApprovedScreening Opinion Request CC/ESSESS/102/22/COL/SO
Source: Essex
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