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Penguin Random House Distribution Colchester Road Frating Colchester Essex CO7 7DW

23/01745/NDPNOTNon Domestic Prior NotificationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 January 2024

Council decision: Determination prior approval not reqredDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Prior Approval Application under Part 14, Class J of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for installation of solar panels.

Received
8 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
The Bentleys & Frating
  1. Received8 Dec
  2. Validated8 Dec
  3. Consult.2 Jan
  4. Target2 Feb
  5. Decided18 Jan

Decided in 41 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Penguin Random House Distribution Colchester Road Frating Colchester Essex CO7 7DW. Tendring has handled 407 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 8 days quicker than Tendring's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across The Bentleys & Frating. We hold 2,580 applications in total for the CO7 postcode area.

77% of outline applications at Tendring District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CO7 7DW
Application type
Non Domestic Prior Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Bentley Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 December 2023
Consultation expiry
15 January 2024
Consultation start
12 December 2023
Consultation end
2 January 2024
Neighbour consultation start
12 December 2023
Neighbour consultation end
2 January 2024
Last date for comments
15 January 2024
Target decision date
2 February 2024
Permission expires
18 January 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
21 December 2023
Site notice end
15 January 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12662893
Documents
12
Constraints
2

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)

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 (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: Tendring

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