New housing in Colchester City Council
We don't read Colchester City Council's planning register yet, so reports on fields here rely on national data: Green Belt, flood zones, protected land, farmland quality and how close a field is to a town or village.
It delivered 109% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test.
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Key facts
- Local Plan
- Not recorded yet.
- Five-year housing land supply
- Not recorded yet.
- Housing Delivery Test
- 109% (2025)
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 17
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Towns and villages
See every field round the edge of a town or village, scored for how likely it is to be built on.
- Berechurch
- Boxted
- Boxted Cross
- Colchester
- Copford
- Dedham
- Dedham Heath
- East Mersea
- Eight Ash Green
- Fingringhoe
- Fordham (Colchester)
- Fordstreet
- Great Horkesley
- Great Tey
- Heckfordbridge
- High Park Corner
- Lamb Corner
- Langenhoe and Abberton
- Layer Breton
- Layer-de-la-Haye
- Marks Tey
- Peldon
- Rowhedge
- Tiptree
- Tye Green (Colchester)
- Wakes Colne
- West Bergholt
- West Mersea
- Wivenhoe
Where this comes from
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.