Auto Spares, Station Yard, Thorrington, Great Bentley Road, CO7 8HY
Approved on 31 July 2026
Council decision: Granted
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Proposal
Details pursuant to condition 7 (cycle and powered two-wheel vehicle parking facilities) of planning permission ref: ESS/65/21/TEN, approved on appeal ref: APP/Z1585/W/22/3301961 (Extension to vehicle breakers yard)
- Received
- 29 June 2026
- Council
- Essex County Council
- Ward
- Brightlingsea ED
- ReceivedReceived29 Jun
- ValidatedValidated1 Jul
- Consult.Consultation15 Jul
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided31 Jul
Decided in 30 days (council typically 35)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Auto Spares, Station Yard, Thorrington, Great Bentley Road, CO7 8HY. Essex has handled 308 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 3 days quicker than Essex's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Brightlingsea ED. We hold 2,586 applications in total for the CO7 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
- CO7 8HY
- Application type
- Submission of Details CC/ESS
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Thorrington CP
- District
- Tendring District
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 July 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 15 July 2026
- Consultation start
- 1 July 2026
- Consultation end
- 15 July 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 22 Post Office Road Broomfield Chelmsford CM1 7AD
Additional information
- Documents
- 5
Site constraints
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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Essex
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