Development Committee

The application for 410 dwellings, 20/00940/OUT – Land North of London Road and West of Rawreth Industrial Estate, Rawreth Lane, Rayleigh, has been withdrawn by the applicant. As yet we do not know the reasons why but will endeavour to find out more information.

The application for the 600+ homes in Ashingdon (SER8) will be coming back to the development committee sometime in the future after it was deferred at the last meeting. Councillors have now received some legal guidance on the matters (which is secret) and will have to consider that at the […]

20/00363/OUT – Land East of Ashingdon Road and North of Rochford Garden Way, Rochford Last Thursday, Rochford District Council voted to defer the application for 662 homes which had been put forward by Bloor Homes. Both non members and members of Rochford District attended the meeting with all three Downhall […]

The application for 24 apartments and 2 commercial units on the former Dairy Crest site was approved last night by a committee decision of 7 (for) & 6 (against) Councillors in favour of the development were Lesley Butcher (C) Daniel Efdes (C) Julie Gooding (C) David Merrick (C) Arthur Williams […]

This week the Council moved into new territory with the Development Committee taking place via the Zoom platform. Residents could watch the broadcast of the meeting via YouTube (you can watch the recording here) 19/01184/REM – Land North of London Road, Rayleigh (APPROVED) To consider a Reserved Matters application (including […]

Love is in the fresh air for Hambro Close residents today, after Cllrs Craig Cannell and Chris Stanley shot a cupid’s arrow straight through the heart of Rochford District Councils planners, when they moved to refuse an application to develop council land. The application that Rochford District Council were hoping […]

Guest blog post by Stephen Tellis, Rayleigh & Wickford Lib Dem Chair Well Christmas is well and truly over and the planners at RDC are kicking off the year with an almost comedic report which recommends APPROVAL for 35 flats on the old Dairy Crest site in the heart of […]

The development committee was unanimous in its decision to refuse the reserved matters planning application (19/00862/REM) for 5, 2 bedroom flats on Crown Hill, this week. Outline planning permission has been previously granted for this site (18/01144/OUT) Going against the officers recommendation of approval, concerns were raised by the committee […]

One item on the development committee has been ‘called in’ this week by an Independent Cllr. (Link Here) The reserved matters application is to deal with RESERVED MATTERS APPLICATION RELATING TO ACCESS, LANDSCAPING, LAYOUT AND SCALE FOR OUTLINE PLANNING CONSENT (18/01144/OUT) FOR THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION […]