Land West Of Colchester Road Bures Hamlet Essex Data via plota.co.uk

Pending Consideration 26/00421/DAC

Admin / procedural

Council

Braintree 7/10

Date received

around 9 Mar 2026

Date validated

9 Mar 2026

Postcode

CO8 5BQ

Description

Discharge of condition 5 of (Biodiversity Enhancement Strategy) . Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:55

Site constraints 3

Agricultural land, grade 2

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Also on the record

Priority habitat about 10 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh; Flood defence about 37 m from the postcode pin (natural high ground, designed for a 1 in 18 year flood).

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Braintree

Planning Authority Score

7/10

Good

#61 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Braintree is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #47 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

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Braintree decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

86%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #189 of 296

92%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #148 of 296

78%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #47 of 296

33%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #71 of 296

62%

Minor dwellings approved

119 decided (1-9 homes)

87%

Major dwellings approved

15 decided (10+ homes)

91%

Change of use approved

11 decided

927

Total decisions

132 refused in the year to March 2026