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Blackley Quarry, Land to the north east and north west of Blackley Lane, A131, Great Leighs, CM3 1QP

ESS/42/17/CHL/23/02Submission of Details CC/ESSApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 4 September 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Details pursuant to condition 23 of ESS/42/17/CHL – Noise monitoring results July 2023. ESS/42/17/CHL was an amendment to 'Extraction of an estimated reserve of 2.8 million tonnes of sand and gravel (from sites A38 and A39 as identified in the Minerals Local Plan 2014) and retention of existing access onto the A131, retention of existing sand and gravel processing plant (to be relocated within site A38), progressive restoration to agriculture using inert fill, installation of inert recycling facility, including screening and crushing to recover secondary aggregate. In addition revised restoration scheme for the existing quarry area'

Received
11 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Broomfield and Writtle ED Thaxted ED Brightlingsea ED Three Fields with Great Notley ED
  1. Received11 Aug
  2. Validated11 Aug
  3. Consult.7 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Sep

Decided in 24 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Blackley Quarry, Land to the north east and north west of Blackley Lane, A131, Great Leighs, CM3 1QP. Essex has handled 308 applications of this type. This one was decided in 24 days, 11 days quicker than Essex's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,984 applications in total for the CM3 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
CM3 1QP
Application type
Submission of Details CC/ESS
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Felsted CP Great and Little Leighs CP Great Notley CP Black Notley CP
District
Uttlesford District Chelmsford District Braintree District

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 August 2023
Consultation expiry
7 September 2023
Consultation start
17 August 2023
Consultation end
7 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Flat Road Farm Willingham Cambridge CB24 5JW

Additional information

Documents
5

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.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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.

Source: Essex

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