Land North Of Reservoir, Dollymans Farm, Doublegate Lane, Rawreth, Essex, Data via plota.co.uk

26/00078/OUT - Outline Application Pending Consideration
Change of useCommercial & major worksSchools, care & communityNew homesUtility infrastructureCommercial premises

Proposal

Outline planning permission with all matters reserved, except for three means of access from the A129 , for up to 1,300 dwellings (Use Class C3), a primary school (Use Class F1), retail floor space and healthcare floor space as part of a mixed use neighbourhood centre (Use Classes E/F1/F2/ C3, C2, Sui Generis drinking establishment), site accesses and highway works, on-site wastewater treatment plant, pedestrian and cycle improvements, associated infrastructure, ancillary works, green and blue infrastructure including sustainable drainage systems, ecological habitat areas, childrens play areas, public open space, playing fields and Natural Green space. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
2 Feb 2026
Decision
Target date was 4 May 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 29 Oct 2026; it is now day 269.

The consultation period closed on 30 Mar 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Green belt: London
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
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 Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Flood defence about 17 m from the postcode pin (natural high ground, designed for a 1 in 10 year flood); Open access land about 19 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..
Not affected
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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Important details

Council
Rochford
Application type
Outline Application
Received
2 Feb 2026
Validated
2 Feb 2026
Ward
Downhall And Rawreth Rochford District Council -
Parish
Rawreth Parish Council
Case officer
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Target decision
4 May 2026

Decision outlook

Day 269, past the statutory target. 59% of new homes in Rochford are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 25 Oct 2026.

Day 269178 days past the 91-day target
28%decided within 8 weeks
59%approved
33decided in the last year

Plota live figures for new homes decided by Rochford in the last twelve months, from validation. Rochford decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Planning Portal ref
PP-14514259
Comments by
30 Mar 2026
Rochford
Planning Authority Score
3.2/10
Poor
#230 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Major dwellings

Rochford is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #221 out of 296. Rochford is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 81% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 81% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Rochford decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
79%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #265 of 296
81%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #275 of 296
53%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #221 of 296
36%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #112 of 296
62%
Minor dwellings approved
66 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
3 decided (10+ homes)
86%
Change of use approved
14 decided
472
Total decisions
98 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings