Birch Airfield, Blind Lane, Birch, Essex, CO5 9XE

ESS/31/24/COL/25/02Submission of Details CC/ESSApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 14 July 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Details pursuant to condition 25 (Written Scheme of Investigation) 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: 8 July 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Essex County Council
Ward: Stanway and Pyefleet ED

ReceivedReceived8 Jul
ValidatedValidated9 Jul
Consult.Consultation27 Jul
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided14 Jul

Decided in 5 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 6 days, 4 weeks quicker than Essex's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 11 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 4 applications across Stanway and Pyefleet ED. 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
Parish: Birch CP
District: Colchester District

Planning application dates

Date validated: 9 July 2026
Consultation expiry: 27 July 2026
Consultation start: 13 July 2026
Consultation end: 27 July 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: iCon Innovation Centre Eastern Way Daventry Northamptonshire NN11 0QB

Additional information

Documents: 8

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.

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.

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2 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Essex

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