Planning application
Land East Of All Saints Church And North Of Arundel Road, Fambridge Road, Ashingdon, Essex,
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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 23/00407/FUL 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.
As published by the council, reference 26/00572/FUL
Application record
- Reference
- 26/00572/FUL
- Type
- Full Application
- Status
- Pending Consideration
- Received
- 7 Aug 2026
- Validated
- 7 Aug 2026
- Ward
- Hockley And Ashingdon
- Parish
- Ashingdon Parish Council
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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7 Aug 2026
Received by Rochford
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23 Sep 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 2 October 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
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Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
5 documents on file for this application
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