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Agricultural Building At Gunhill Farm Stivvys Road Woodham Walter Essex

26/00133/PACUARPrior App COU agriculture to dwellingsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 April 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Prior approval for the change of use from a agricultural building to one dwellinghouse (class C3) including building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion

Received
23 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Wickham Bishops And Woodham
  1. Received23 Feb
  2. Validated24 Feb
  3. Consult.25 Mar
  4. Target20 Apr
  5. Decided20 Apr

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Agricultural Building At Gunhill Farm Stivvys Road Woodham Walter Essex. Maldon has handled 211 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 109 applications across Wickham Bishops And Woodham.

74% of outline applications at Maldon District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Prior App COU agriculture to dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Woodham Walter

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 February 2026
Consultation expiry
25 March 2026
Consultation start
25 February 2026
Last date for comments
25 March 2026
Target decision date
20 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Old Market Office Risbygate Street Bury St Edmunds IP33 3AA

Planning decision

Case officer
Kie Farrell
Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
4 March 2026
Site notice end
25 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14729127

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)

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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: Maldon

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