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Solitude Back Lane West Great Bromley Colchester Essex CO7 7JE

26/00896/LUPROPRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 10 August 2026

Council decision: Lawful Use/development Refused

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Application for Lawful Development Certificate for Proposed Use or Development for the change of use of the dwellinghouse from Class C3(a) to Class C3(b). Additionally, the removal of the chimneys, addition of hardstanding, installation of a 2m high fence, and replacement of the existing windows with doors

Received
10 June 2026
  1. Received10 Jun
  2. Validated16 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Aug

Decided in 55 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Solitude Back Lane West Great Bromley Colchester Essex CO7 7JE. Tendring has handled 5,114 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Tendring's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,580 applications in total for the CO7 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
CO7 7JE

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 June 2026

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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