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Pump Cottage Hampit Road Arkesden Saffron Walden Essex CB11 4HJ

UTT/26/0172/CLPProposed Cert of LawfulnessRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 11 March 2026

Council decision: Refuse Certificate LawfulnessDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Raising of ground level and associated retaining works

Received
22 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Clavering
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated23 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 Mar
  5. Decided11 Mar

Decided in 47 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Pump Cottage Hampit Road Arkesden Saffron Walden Essex CB11 4HJ. Uttlesford has handled 476 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days. The site is in the Arkesden conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 61 applications across Clavering. We hold 772 applications in total for the CB11 postcode area.

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

Postcode
CB11 4HJ
Application type
Proposed Cert of Lawfulness
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Arkesden

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 January 2026
Target decision date
20 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: ArkesdenPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Thatched CottageOn or next to this site · +3 more
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 2/85/01-2558Part of the site · +2 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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: Uttlesford

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