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Lubards Farm, Hullbridge Road, Rayleigh, Essex

25/00636/EIAEnvironmental Impact Assessment (RDC)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 21 October 2025

Council decision: Env. Impact Assessment Required

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Scoping Opinion request pursuant to the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (Regulation 15) (as updated) to confirm the scope and level of detail of information to be provided in an Environmental Statement in relation to a planning application for residential development of up to 550 homes, specialist accommodation for the elderly (Class C2), public open space, sports pitches, flexible community/sports use pavilion and associated infrastructure.

Received
29 August 2025
Ward
Downhall And Rawreth
  1. Received29 Aug
  2. Validated29 Aug
  3. Consult.22 Oct
  4. Target3 Oct
  5. Decided21 Oct

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Lubards Farm, Hullbridge Road, Rayleigh, Essex,. Rochford has handled 24 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Rochford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across Downhall And Rawreth.

91% of all applications at Rochford 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
Environmental Impact Assessment (RDC)
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
550
Parish
Rayleigh Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 August 2025
Consultation expiry
22 October 2025
Consultation start
1 October 2025
Consultation end
22 October 2025
Target decision date
3 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
15 De Grey Square, De Grey Road, Colchester, Essex, CO4 5YQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Rochford
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

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© 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.

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