Land East Of All Saints Church And North Of Arundel Road, Fambridge Road, Ashingdon, Essex, Data via plota.co.uk

26/00572/FUL - Full Application Pending Consideration

Proposal

Application to vary planning conditions No's 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, and 26 pursuant to planning permission reference for the 'construction of a solar photovoltaic farm and associated ancillary infrastructure including; the installation of ground level equipment, emergency lighting, and single storey building to house a transformer all within a substation compound; additional single storey building (control and metering room); the installation of customer substation and transformer equipment units including the formation of earth bunds around some; installation of fencing including mounted security cameras, the formation of new access tracks, altered vehicular access and landscaping' to allow a 50 metre section of internal access track to be constructed prior to the full discharge of pre-commencement conditions for the site as a whole. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 28 Oct 2026, 10:28

Application progress

✓

Received

7 Aug 2026

Decision

Expected by 6 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 6 Nov 2026.

The consultation period closed on 10 Oct 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 3

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.

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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.

Not affected

No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 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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26/00372/FUL

Important details

Council: Rochford
Application type: Full Application
Received: 7 Aug 2026
Validated: 7 Aug 2026
Ward: Hockley And Ashingdon Rochford District Council -
Parish: Ashingdon Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 6 Nov 2026

Consultation & key dates

Planning Portal ref: PP-15112930
Comments by: 10 Oct 2026

Rochford

Planning Authority Score

3.2/10

Poor

#230 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

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