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Barn At Birchanger Hall Farm Birchanger Lane Birchanger

UTT/22/0539/PAR3Prior Approval Part 3 Class RRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 14 April 2022

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Prior notification of proposed Change of Use of Agricultural Building to a flexible use within Storage or Distribution (Use Class B8), Hotels (Use Class C1),Commercial/Business/Service (Use Class E), or until the end of July 2022, uses previously classified as Assembly and Leisure (Use Class D2)

Received
22 February 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Stansted South And Birchanger
  1. Received22 Feb
  2. Validated22 Feb
  3. Consult.17 Mar
  4. Target19 Apr
  5. Decided14 Apr

Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Barn At Birchanger Hall Farm Birchanger Lane Birchanger. Uttlesford has handled 476 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Stansted South And Birchanger.

72% of outline applications at Uttlesford District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Prior Approval Part 3 Class R
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Birchanger

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 February 2022
Consultation expiry
25 March 2022
Consultation start
24 February 2022
Consultation end
17 March 2022
Neighbour consultation start
14 April 2022
Neighbour consultation end
24 March 2022
Last date for comments
25 March 2022
Target decision date
19 April 2022
Permission expires
14 April 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Savills Unex House 132-134 Hills Road Cambridge CB2 8PA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
4 March 2022
Site notice end
25 March 2022

Additional information

Documents
39

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: Uttlesford
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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: Uttlesford

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