Pump Farm Tendring Road Little Bentley Colchester Essex CO7 8SH
Approved on 5 February 2026
Council decision: Determination prior approval not reqredDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application to determine if prior approval is required under Part 6, Class A of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for straw barn and agricultural machinery store.
- Received
- 22 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Tendring District Council
- Ward
- The Bentleys & Frating
- ReceivedReceived22 Jan
- ValidatedValidated22 Jan
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date19 Feb
- DecidedDecided5 Feb
Decided in 14 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a planning application at Pump Farm Tendring Road Little Bentley Colchester Essex CO7 8SH. Tendring has handled 123 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 5 weeks 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.
89% of all 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 8SH
- Application type
- Agricultural Determinations
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Little Bentley Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 19 February 2026
- Permission expires
- 5 February 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Bulbanks Farm Halstead Road Eight Ash Green Colchester CO6 3PT
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 28 days
Site constraints
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.
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