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Comarques Farm Barn Colchester Road Thorpe Le Soken Essex CO16 0LA

25/00455/COUNOTChange of Use Prior NotificationRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 2 May 2025

Council decision: Prior aprv req - deemed appl refusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Approval Application under Part 3, Class Q of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for conversion of an agricultural building in to four residential dwelling units.

Received
17 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Thorpe, Beaumont & Great Holland
  1. Received17 Mar
  2. Validated17 Mar
  3. Consult.9 Apr
  4. Target12 May
  5. Decided2 May

Decided in 46 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Comarques Farm Barn Colchester Road Thorpe Le Soken Essex CO16 0LA. Tendring has handled 203 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 3 days quicker than Tendring's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Thorpe, Beaumont & Great Holland. We hold 755 applications in total for the CO16 postcode area.

85% of amendment 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
CO16 0LA
Application type
Change of Use Prior Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Thorpe Le Soken Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 March 2025
Consultation expiry
1 May 2025
Consultation start
19 March 2025
Consultation end
9 April 2025
Last date for comments
1 May 2025
Target decision date
12 May 2025
Permission expires
2 May 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Valley Barns Golden Lane Thorpe Le Soken CO16 0LE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 April 2025
Site notice end
1 May 2025

Appeal history

3367140
Split Decision
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 3 September 2025Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
14
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Thorpe-le-SokenNext to the site
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Thorpe-le-SokenNext to 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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© 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
    12 Dec

    Planning Application - demolition of barn and replacement with three x 2 bed dwellings (in lieu of deemed…

    ApprovedApplicationRelated25/01789/FUL
  2. 2025
    17 Mar

    Prior Approval Application under Part 3, Class Q of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted…

    This applicationRefusedAmendment25/00455/COUNOT

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