Whitehouse Farm Church Road Thorrington Colchester Essex CO7 8HS
Proposal
Planning Application - Installation of a 250kW ground mounted solar panel array to provide electrical power to the farm to aid its salad growing business and reduce its grid-dependency.
- Received
- 15 September 2026
- Public comments
- 0 · last counted 10 October 2026
- Council
- Tendring District Council
- ReceivedSubmitted15 Sep
- ValidatedValidated15 Sep
- Consult.Consultation8 Oct
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided
This is a planning application for a solar installation at Whitehouse Farm Church Road Thorrington Colchester Essex CO7 8HS. Tendring has handled 4,966 applications of this type and approves 90% of them, typically deciding them in 51 days. It was submitted on 15 September 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. There have been 5 other applications at this address. We hold 2,538 applications in total for the CO7 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
5 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201914 May
Construction of a general agricultural building.
ApprovedAgricultural Determinations19/00741/AGRIC - 20189 Aug
Discharge of conditions 3 (soft landscaping), 5 (ecological management & mitigation plan), and 8…
Approval - Discharge of ConditionDischarge of conditions18/01317/DISCON - 201614 Jun
Installation of electronic communications.
ApprovedTelcom Licence Notification16/00913/TELLIC - 20159 Feb
An agricultural barn.
ApprovedAgricultural Determinations15/00192/AGRIC - 20111 Nov
Erection of polytunnels.
ApprovedFull Application11/01306/FUL
Planning 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 (21)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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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- 6.8 miColchesterRTPI
- 7.0 miColchesterRICS Regulated
- 7.4 miColchesterRTPI
Nearest first, within 25 miles of the site. Every firm is listed free.
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