Rivenhall Airfield, Coggeshall Road, Braintree, C05 9DF

ESS/39/23/BTE/17/01Submission of Details CC/ESSApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 24 October 2025

Council decision: Partial GrantedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Details pursuant to partial discharge of condition 17 (Plume Abatement Plan for the Commissioning Phase of the Combined Heat and Power Plant) of planning permission ESS/39/23/BTE. ESS/39/23/BTE is the extant planning permission for the Rivenhall Integrated Waste Management Facility

Received: 4 September 2025
Decision level: Planning committee
Council: Essex County Council
Ward: Braintree Eastern ED Witham Northern ED

ReceivedReceived4 Sep
ValidatedValidated5 Sep
Consult.Consultation1 Oct
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided24 Oct

Decided in 49 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Rivenhall Airfield, Coggeshall Road, Braintree, C05 9DF. Essex has handled 307 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 2 weeks longer than Essex's typical decision time. The site is in the Braintree Town Centre and Bradford Street conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Braintree Eastern ED Witham Northern ED. We hold 937 applications in total for the CM7 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: CM7 3YG
Application type: Submission of Details CC/ESS
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Kelvedon CP Bradwell CP Silver End CP Coggeshall CP
District: Braintree District

Planning application dates

Date validated: 5 September 2025
Consultation expiry: 1 October 2025
Consultation start: 10 September 2025
Consultation end: 1 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: RPS Consulting UK & Ireland 3 Sovereign Square Sovereign Street Leeds LS1 4ER

Additional information

Documents: 20

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Conservation area: Braintree Town Centre and Bradford Street
Listed building: Grade II*: Town Hall Including Screens and Public Lavatories Adjoining North East and SouthOn this site · +1 more
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, 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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