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Cooks Hole Quarry And Thornhaugh Landfill Site Leicester Road Thornhaugh Peterborough PE8 6NH

24/00210/MMFULMinerals/Waste Application (Full)Approved
Full

Approved on 26 September 2024

Council decision: PermittedPlanning committee

Proposal

Continuation of landfilling operations and the importation of clean naturally occurring materials to create an integrated restoration landform with nature conservation habitats

Received
16 February 2024
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Wittering
  1. Received16 Feb
  2. Validated16 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided26 Sep

Decided in 223 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Cooks Hole Quarry And Thornhaugh Landfill Site Leicester Road Thornhaugh Peterborough PE8 6NH. Peterborough has handled 1,456 applications of this type. This one was decided in 223 days, 25 weeks longer than Peterborough's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Wittering. We hold 863 applications in total for the PE8 postcode area.

87% of full applications at Peterborough City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PE8 6NH
Application type
Minerals/Waste Application (Full)
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Thornhaugh

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 February 2024
Committee meeting
3 September 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
MJCA
Agent address
Baddesley Colliery Offices Main Road Baxterley Atherstone Warwickshire CV9 2LE

Additional information

Documents
119

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)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    16 Oct

    Discharge of condition C14 (HMMP) pursuant to planning permission 24/00210/MMFUL

    PendingDischarge of conditions25/01332/DISCHG
  2. 2024
    16 Feb

    Continuation of landfilling operations and the importation of clean naturally occurring materials to create…

    This applicationApprovedFull24/00210/MMFUL

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