Land West Of Panfield Lane Braintree Essex Data via plota.co.uk

Pending 26/00255/NMA
Admin / procedural
Council
Braintree 7/10
Date received
around 22 Jul 2026
Date validated
22 Jul 2026

Description

Non-Material Amendment to permission granted on 07.07.2026 for Variation of Condition A3 (Approved Plans and Time Limit), Condition C3 (Noise) and consequential amendments to Conditions A1, B1, B2, B3, B4 and C6 of approved application granted 20.03.2020 for: Hybrid planning application for a mixed use development for up to 825 Residential Units, with part submitted in outline (with all matters reserved) and part submitted in detail, where: The Outline Component of the application seeks approval for: i. Up to 636 Residential Units (Use Class C3); ii. Up to 0.95ha of land for Business Use (Use Class E(g), B2, B8); iii. Up to 2.38ha of land for the provision of a Neighbourhood Centre with possible uses including Retail, Commercial, Residential Care, Health, Veterinary and Crèche Uses (Use Classes C2, E (a), (b), (c), (e), (f) & (g)(i), F1, F2 (a) & (b) and sui generis uses of drinking establishments & hot food takeaways); iv. Up to 2ha of land for a Primary School; v. Up to 2.88ha of land for Sports; and vi. All associated open space, landscaping, parking, utilities, drainage and infrastructure. The Detailed Component of the application seeks approval for: vii. 189 Residential Units (Use Class C3) including parking and utilities, viii. New link road between Panfield Lane and Springwood Drive and new roundabout at junction of Panfield Lane and Churchill Road. Variation would allow: Details of replacement of hedgerow and alterations to road layout to correspond to latest highway designs, removal of reference to Community Sports Facilities in favour of Sports Land, and updating of conditions to reflect details already approved under and . Non material amendment would allow changes to approved house types. Data via plota.co.uk

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Associated applications 2

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    ConditionsApprovedcouncil archive

    Conditions 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 variation sought

    • AmendmentNon-Material Amendment for Variation of Condition A3 (Approved Plans and Time Limit)…This application26/00255/NMA

Site constraints 2

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. A site survey can differ.
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.
Public footpath about 22 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.
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%).

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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings