Plough Road Centre Plough Road Great Bentley Essex CO7 8LG
Approved on 18 January 2024
Council decision: Determination prior approval not reqredDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application under Part 14, Class J of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for solar panels to the roofs of Northgate and Southgate House.
- Received
- 15 December 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Tendring District Council
- Ward
- The Bentleys & Frating
- ReceivedReceived15 Dec
- ValidatedValidated15 Dec
- Consult.Consultation8 Jan
- TargetTarget Date9 Feb
- DecidedDecided18 Jan
Decided in 34 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Plough Road Centre Plough Road Great Bentley Essex CO7 8LG. Tendring has handled 407 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 2 weeks quicker than Tendring's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications 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 8LG
- Application type
- Non Domestic Prior Notification
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Great Bentley Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 December 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 8 January 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 18 December 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 8 January 2024
- Last date for comments
- 11 January 2024
- Target decision date
- 9 February 2024
- Permission expires
- 18 January 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Plough Road Centre Plough Road Great Bentley Colchester Essex CO7 8LG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 21 December 2023
- Site notice end
- 15 January 2023
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Great BentleyPart of the site
- 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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Tendring
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