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Brook Farm Thorrington Road Great Bentley Colchester Essex CO7 8QP

25/01540/FULRefused

Refused on 22 December 2025

Council decision: Refusal - Full

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Planning Application - Erection of a detached self-build dwelling.

Received
14 October 2025
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated29 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Dec

Decided in 54 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Brook Farm Thorrington Road Great Bentley Colchester Essex CO7 8QP. Tendring has handled 5,124 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Tendring's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,585 applications in total for the CO7 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
CO7 8QP

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Architect profile
ZOE MANNING DRAWING SERVICES LIMITED

Appeal history

6007425
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 24 July 2026Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: refused
3375462
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 30 April 2026Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Refusal

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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