Firs Lake Land off Heath Road Tendring Clacton On Sea Essex CO16 0BX Data via plota.co.uk

25/01065/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Planning Application - Change of use of land to leisure use and construction of two holiday lodges. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 15 Oct 2026, 21:28

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Application progress

✓

Received

18 Jul 2025

✓

Validated

23 Jul 2025

✓

Consultation

30 Jul 2025

✓

Approved

4 Nov 2025

Approved on 4 Nov 2025 · Committee Decision · Last checked 15 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Tendring Planning Committee on 30 Oct 2025.

Approved

As officers recommended.

Officers advised approval because the lodges would support tourism without significant harm to the area, neighbours, trees or highways.
The parish council objected over backland development, visibility, access, neighbour enjoyment and waste or pollution concerns.
The committee granted permission after a deferral motion was lost on the Chairman’s casting vote, with additional sewerage and lighting conditions.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site, planning history, officer assessment, objections, speakers, committee debate, vote and final decision. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Tendring's committee minutes of 30 Oct 2025.

Documents 38

Site constraints 2

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.

National infrastructure project 457 m away: Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm

The site is 457 m from the project boundary. Generating station, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: North Falls Offshore Wind Farm (decided, 459 m).

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 1 November 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate 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: Tendring
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: CO16 0BX
Received: 18 Jul 2025
Validated: 23 Jul 2025
Ward: Weeley & Tendring
Parish: Tendring Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 7 Nov 2025
Decision: Approval - Full
Decision date: 4 Nov 2025
Decision level: Committee Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Nixon Architecture Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 104 days from validation, 48 days slower than Tendring's median of 56 for full applications. Approved, as 78% of full applications here are.

This one104d

Council56d

UK57d

54%decided within 8 weeks

78%approved

8%go to committee

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Tendring in the last twelve months, from validation. Tendring decision record →

Public comments

1comment received

1 objecting

1 neighbour consulted · Last counted 15 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14163104
Planning Portal ref: PP-14163104
Neighbours: 29 Jul 2025
Consultation: 30 Jul 2025
Comments by: 23 Sept 2025
Site or press notice: 7 Aug 2025
Committee: 30 Oct 2025
Statutory expiry: 17 Sept 2025
Env. assessment: No

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Tendring

Planning Authority Score

6.8/10

Good

#70 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

Tendring is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #40 out of 296. Only 26% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (89%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

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

Tendring decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

85%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #212 of 296

89%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #211 of 296

80%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #40 of 296

26%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #38 of 296

71%

Minor dwellings approved

114 decided (1-9 homes)

88%

Major dwellings approved

16 decided (10+ homes)

80%

Change of use approved

49 decided

837

Total decisions

127 refused in the year to March 2026

Firs Lake Land off Heath Road Tendring Clacton On Sea Essex CO16 0BX Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Planning committee

Documents 38

Decision & officer reports 3

Statements & assessments 8

Plans & drawings 14

Application forms 1

Consultation & comments 5

Other documents 7

Site constraints 2

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