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Auto Spares, Station Yard, Great Bentley Road, Thorrington, CO7 8HY

ESS/65/21/TENFull Planning Application ESSRefused
Full

Refused on 26 January 2022

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of land to form extension of vehicle breakers yard, including processing of end-of-life vehicles, new access, erection of new operational building, new internal road and turn area, parking and storage of vehicles & metals, landscaping, noise fencing, infrastructure and ancillary works

Received
22 June 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Brightlingsea ED
  1. Received22 Jun
  2. Validated24 Jun
  3. Consult.31 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided26 Jan

Decided in 216 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Auto Spares, Station Yard, Great Bentley Road, Thorrington, CO7 8HY. Essex has handled 82 applications of this type. This one was decided in 218 days, 26 weeks longer than Essex's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Brightlingsea ED. We hold 2,585 applications in total for the CO7 postcode area.

96% of full 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
CO7 8HY
Application type
Full Planning Application ESS
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Thorrington CP
District
Tendring District

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 June 2021
Consultation expiry
31 January 2022
Consultation start
31 January 2022
Consultation end
31 January 2022
Committee meeting
26 January 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Courtyard 9A East Street Coggeshall CO6 1SH

Additional information

Documents
48

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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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 2026-11-03. 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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