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Cressing, Essex – Planning Hearing for Variation of Planning Permission
What is planned?
TOWN & COUNTY PLANNING ACT
PLANNING HEARING
Opening on 4th August 2026 at 10.00
Held at Braintree District Council Offices,
Causeway House, Bocking End Braintree
CM7 9HB
REASON FOR HEARING
Appeal Appletree Farm Cressing Limited (In Administration), relating to the application to Braintree District Council for:
Variation of Condition 1 (Approved plans) and 18 (Affordable housing) of approved application 22/02600/VAR granted 23/12/2022 (as amended by 23/01956/NMA and 23/01602/NMA on 23rd December 2022) for: S73a variation of condition application for the erection of 77 residential dwellings with associated open space, landscaping, amenity space, car and cycle parking and other associated works including the variation of Condition 2 (Approved Plans); Condition 3 (Materials); Condition 6 (Contamination); Condition 8 (CMP); Conditions 9, 10 & 11 (SUDS); Condition 14 (CEMP); Condition 16 (Refuse & Lighting); Condition 18 (Hard Landscaping) of application 18/00920/FUL granted 13/02/2020 for the: Demolition of existing buildings on site and erection of 78 residential dwellings with associated open space, landscaping, amenity space, car and cycle parking and other associated works.
Variation would allow amending the tenure plan by providing 16 affordable housing units and removing the requirement to submit an M4(2) certificate for the unbuilt 15 units.
Appletree Farm, Polecat Road, Cressing,
Essex, CM77 8PW, United Kingdom
(application ref: 25/01616/VAR)
An Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State will hold a Hearing opening on the 4 August 2026 to decide the appeal.
You can obtain a copy of the booklet ‘Guide to taking part in planning appeals proceeding by Hearing’ either free of charge from you, or on GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/taking-part-in-a-planning-listed-building-or-enforcement-appeal
If you wish to participate in the Hearing please contact the Local Planning Authority (email: appeals@braintree.gov.uk or telephone: 01376 552525) for details of how to register your interest.
Documents relating to the appeal can be viewed on the Council’s website under the appeals tab located within the Planning Page by entering 26/00018/REF.
Where applicable, you can use the internet to see information and to check the progress of cases through GOV.UK. The address of the search page is - https://www.gov.uk/appeal-planning-inspectorate
Contact point at the Planning Inspectorate:
east2@planninginspectorate.gov.uk
Planning Inspectorate Reference: 6008421
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