Audley End Miniature Railway Audley End Road Saffron Walden Essex CB11 4JB Data via plota.co.uk

UTT/26/2177/FUL - Fully Detailed Pending

Proposal

S73 application to vary conditions 2 (external finishes), 3 (landscaping) and 4 (flood mitigation) attached to - proposed revision of approved plans Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

Received
24 Aug 2026
Validated
27 Aug 2026
Consultation
28 Aug 2026
Decision
Expected by 22 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 22 Oct 2026. Comments are open until 1 Oct 2026.

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Site constraints 7

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 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 ↗
Registered park or garden: Audley End
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, 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.
Scheduled monument 63 m away: Audley End Mansion
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.
Historic England ↗
Also on the record
6 listed buildings within 150 m; Conservation area 47 m away: Audley End Park; Priority habitat 39 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Not green belt

Checked on 11 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
Uttlesford
Application type
Fully Detailed
Postcode
CB11 4JB
Received
24 Aug 2026
Validated
27 Aug 2026
Ward
Saffron Walden Audley
Parish
Saffron Walden
Case officer
Show
Target decision
22 Oct 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Modulek Limited

Public comments

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16 neighbours consulted · Last counted 5 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15155121
Neighbours
28 Aug 2026
Consultation
28 Aug 2026
Comments by
1 Oct 2026
Site or press notice
10 Sept 2026
Statutory expiry
22 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No
Uttlesford
Planning Authority Score
6.2/10
Average
#95 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Uttlesford is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #31 out of 296. Only 25% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Uttlesford is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 82% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 82% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Uttlesford decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
77%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #280 of 296
82%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #272 of 296
82%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #31 of 296
25%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #33 of 296
71%
Minor dwellings approved
276 decided (1-9 homes)
87%
Major dwellings approved
23 decided (10+ homes)
64%
Change of use approved
28 decided
1,247
Total decisions
288 refused in the year to March 2026