Sunnymead Quarry, Alresford - Planning Application

Essex County Council

PLANNING APPLICATION

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (as amended)

Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure)

(England) Order 2015 (as amended)

Notice under Article 15

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT Essex County Council has received a planning application from Tarmac Trading Limited for Continuation of extraction of sand and gravel as an easterly extension to the existing Wivenhoe Quarry, erection of sand and gravel processing plant and ancillary facilities, new vehicular access onto the B1027 Brightlingsea Road, and restoration to agriculture and low-level water-based nature conservation habitats, lowland meadow, woodland planting and hedgerow enhancement using imported inert waste material permitted by ESS/17/18/TEN (as amended by ESS/17/18/TEN/NMA, ESS/28/23/TEN, ESS/28/23/TEN/NMA2, ESS/28/23/TEN/NMA03 and ESS/28/23/TEN/NMA04) without compliance with Conditions 2 (approved details), 19 (landscape Scheme), 21 (plant site layout), 23 (restoration phasing), 30 (wheelwash), 44 (stockpile heights and locations), 46 (site layout), 50 (soil bunds) and 69 (extraction limits) attached to permission ESS/28/23/TEN and variation of the s106 agreement dated 17 December 2020 (as amended by deed of variation agreement dated 25 October 2023) to allow an amended layout of phase 1 including a revised location and design of wheelwash, raised quarry base in the plant site area, altered site office compound and to confirm the detail of the development progression from implementation to plant installation, to allow the export of ‘as raised’ sand and gravel and to clarify the wording of the legal agreement in relation to highway works and Footpath 24. at Sunnymead Quarry, Land to the South of Colchester Main Road, Alresford, Essex, CO7 8DB – ESS/54/26/TEN

The proposed development may not accord with the provisions of the Essex Minerals Local Plan Adopted July 2014; and Essex and Southend Waste Local Plan Adopted July 2017, in force in the area which the land to which the application relates is situated.

Footpaths 19 Elmstead, 24 Elmstead, 2 Alresford and 20 Alresford may be affected by the proposal.

Members of the public may inspect a copy of the application and other documents submitted with it online at https://planning.essex.gov.uk/.

Consultation on this application is open until 12 November 2026.

Representations or objections in respect of this application can be made online at https://planning.essex.gov.uk/view?application=ext&search= or in writing to the undersigned by 12 November 2026. Please include your name, full postal address and if possible email address. Any representations or objections received will be taken into account by the Council with the result that they may be made available to the public.

For details on how information will be used and held by ECC please see the County Planning Privacy Statement at https://www.essex.gov.uk/county-planning-privacy-notice/

Graham Thomas, Head of Planning Service, Essex County Council, County Planning, E2 County Hall, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1QH.