Land at Rivenhall Airfield Coggeshall Road, Braintree, CO5 9DF
Proposal
Continuation of development of the Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF) with deletion of condition 66, approved details thereunder and associated conditions (Plan of Action if development not taken forward within 5 years) of planning permission ESS/34/15/BTE. ESS/34/15/BTE was amended planning permission for “The Integrated Waste Management Facility comprising: Anaerobic Digestion Plant treating mixed organic waste, producing biogas converted to electricity through biogas generators; Materials Recovery Facility for mixed dry recyclable waste to recover materials e.g. paper, plastic, metals; Mechanical Biological Treatment facility for the treatment of residual municipal and residual commercial and industrial wastes to produce a solid recovered fuel; De-inking and Pulping Paper Recycling Facility to reclaim paper; Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHP) utilising solid recovered fuel to produce electricity, heat and steam; extraction of minerals to enable buildings to be partially sunken below ground level within the resulting void; visitor/education centre; extension to existing access road; provision of offices and vehicle parking; and associated engineering works and storage tanks.”
- Received
- 27 April 2023
- Decided
- 28 July 2023 · Granted
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- Essex County Council
- Ward
- Witham Northern ED Braintree Eastern ED
- ReceivedSubmitted27 Apr
- ValidatedValidated4 May
- Consult.Consultation9 Jun
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided28 Jul
Decided in 85 days (council typically 35)
This is an application to discharge conditions at Land at Rivenhall Airfield Coggeshall Road, Braintree, CO5 9DF. Essex has handled 301 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 42 days. This one was decided in 92 days, 7 weeks longer than Essex's median. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 6 applications across Witham Northern ED Braintree Eastern ED. We hold 1,545 applications in total for the CO5 postcode area.
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Associated applications
- 202620 Aug
Details pursuant to partial discharge of condition 41 (Noise monitoring August 2026) of planning permission…
Partial DischargeDischarge of conditionsESS/39/23/BTE/41/05 - 202628 Jul
Details pursuant to legal obligation set out in Clause 3.10.3 (Traffic Routing Management Scheme) of Legal…
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/39/23/BTE/LA6 - 202621 May
Details pursuant to partial discharge of condition 41 (Noise monitoring May 2026) of planning permission ref…
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/39/23/BTE/41/04 - 202619 May
Details pursuant to condition 54 (Biodiversity Monitoring Plan - Annual Monitoring Report for 2025) of…
PendingDischarge of conditionsESS/39/23/BTE/54/02 - 202627 Feb
Details pursuant to partial discharge of condition 41 (Noise monitoring February 2026) of planning permission…
Partial DischargeDischarge of conditionsESS/39/23/BTE/41/03 - 202630 Jan
Non-Material Amendment to the Description of Development of planning permission ESS/39/23/BTE
ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendmentESS/39/23/BTE/NMA20 - 20254 Sep
Details pursuant to partial discharge of condition 17 (Plume Abatement Plan for the Commissioning Phase of…
Partial GrantedDischarge of conditionsESS/39/23/BTE/17/01 - 202516 Jul
Non-Material Amendment to the wording of condition 63 of planning permission ESS/39/23/BTE
ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendmentESS/39/23/BTE/NMA17 - 202425 Nov
Non-Material Amendment to the wording of condition 2 of planning permission ESS/39/23/BTE
ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendmentESS/39/23/BTE/NMA10 - 20247 Jun
Non-Material Amendment to amend the wording of Condition 8 of planning permission ESS/39/23/BTE
ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendmentESS/39/23/BTE/NMA5 - 202327 Apr
Continuation of development of the Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF) with deletion of condition 66…
This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/39/23/BTE - 202325 Apr
Non-Material Amendment to amend the wording of Condition 45, 57 and 59 of planning permission ESS/34/15/BTE
ApprovedNon-material amendmentFiled alongsideESS/34/15/BTE/NMA5
Planning 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)
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