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Land at Rivenhall Airfield Coggeshall Road, Braintree, CO5 9DF

ESS/39/23/BTERemoval/Variation of Condition ESSPermitted
Discharge / amendments

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
Ward
Witham Northern ED Braintree Eastern ED
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.
  1. Received27 Apr
  2. Validated4 May
  3. Consult.9 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 Jul

Decided in 85 days (council typically 35)

5 weeks typical decision time in Essex97% of conditions applications approved

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.

Application Details

Reference
ESS/39/23/BTE
Address
Land at Rivenhall Airfield Coggeshall Road, Braintree, CO5 9DF
Postcode
CO5 9DF
Local Authority
Essex
Application Type
Removal/Variation of Condition ESS
Scale / Size
Small
Decision Status
Permitted
Current Status
Decision Made
Ward
Witham Northern ED Braintree Eastern ED
Parish
Silver End CP Bradwell CP Kelvedon CP Coggeshall CP
District
Braintree District

Applicant & Agent

Applicant Address
c/o agent c/o agent
Agent Address
RPS Consulting UK & Ireland Platform New Station Road Leeds LS1 4JB

Planning Application Dates

Date Received
27 April 2023
Consultation Expiry
9 June 2023
Date Decided
28 July 2023
Date Validated
4 May 2023
Date Submitted
27 April 2023
Consultation Start
19 May 2023
Consultation End
9 June 2023

Planning Decision

Decision
Granted
Decided By
Committee

Publicity

Appeal

Additional Information

Documents
21
Coordinates
51.850136, 0.654942
Enriching application data
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Essex

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Associated applications

  1. 2026
    20 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
  2. 2026
    28 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
  3. 2026
    21 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
  4. 2026
    19 May

    Details pursuant to condition 54 (Biodiversity Monitoring Plan - Annual Monitoring Report for 2025) of…

    PendingDischarge of conditionsESS/39/23/BTE/54/02
  5. 2026
    27 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
  6. 2026
    30 Jan

    Non-Material Amendment to the Description of Development of planning permission ESS/39/23/BTE

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendmentESS/39/23/BTE/NMA20
  7. 2025
    4 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
  8. 2025
    16 Jul

    Non-Material Amendment to the wording of condition 63 of planning permission ESS/39/23/BTE

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendmentESS/39/23/BTE/NMA17
  9. 2024
    25 Nov

    Non-Material Amendment to the wording of condition 2 of planning permission ESS/39/23/BTE

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendmentESS/39/23/BTE/NMA10
  10. 2024
    7 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
  11. 2023
    27 Apr

    Continuation of development of the Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF) with deletion of condition 66…

    This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditionsESS/39/23/BTE
  12. 2023
    25 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)

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.

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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 2026-10-09. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

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