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260802 - COU Agricultural buildings to residential dwellinghouse Approved

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed:Change of Use to former Agricultural Building and for building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion to 4 bedroom Dwellinghouses (Class C3). The Town and Country Planning Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

30 Apr 2026

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Approved

25 Jun 2026

Approved on 25 Jun 2026 · Last checked 24 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 4

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not 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) agrees.

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.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Public footpath 27 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Also on the record

1 listed building within 150 m.

Not affected

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

Checked on 18 September 2026. 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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Important details

Council: Colchester
Application type: COU Agricultural buildings to residential dwellinghouse
Postcode: CO5 7RE
Received: 30 Apr 2026
Validated: 30 Apr 2026
Ward: Marks Tey & Layer
Parish: Winstred Hundred
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 25 Jun 2026
Decision: Prior Approval Required (Approved)
Decision date: 25 Jun 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, 28 days slower than Colchester's median of 28 for agricultural works. Approved, as 81% of agricultural works here are.

This one56d

Council28d

UK44d

85%decided within 8 weeks

81%approved

26decided in the last year

Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Colchester in the last twelve months, from validation. Colchester decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 29 May 2026

Colchester

Planning Authority Score

6.2/10

Average

#91 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

Colchester is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #43 out of 296. Only 27% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Colchester is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 84% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils

only 84% approved vs 90% nationally

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Colchester decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

82%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #245 of 296

84%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #255 of 296

79%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #43 of 296

27%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #39 of 296

67%

Minor dwellings approved

69 decided (1-9 homes)

85%

Major dwellings approved

13 decided (10+ homes)

75%

Change of use approved

89 decided

1,074

Total decisions

188 refused in the year to March 2026