Here is a round-up of some of the plans considered by Colchester Council.

  • GUITAR specialists want to move to a vacant unit on Severalls Industrial Estate in Colchester.

Peach Guitars is currently based at the Cowdray Business Centre in Colchester, but needs a bigger premises to continue their growth.

A bid has been lodged to Colchester Council to take over the building on Crown Gate for a shop, storage and space for potential buyers to test equipment.

A decision is due by September 22.

  • AN application has been launched to build over council land to boost access to a sheltered housing service.

Vyntoner House in Kincaid Road, St Osyth, wants to install a dropped kerb and a hard-standing path to improve access for vehicles and pedestrians.

It will include creating the new access point over Tendring Council-owned piece of greensward.

The sheltered housing scheme currently shares an access road with its neighbours.

The council is set to make a decision on the application.

  • A TATTOO studio which has been in business since 1973 could be turned into flats.

Plans have been submitted to Colchester Council for Dave Ross's studio, in Magdalen Street, to be turned into two apartments.

The business was put up for sale so Mr Ross could retire after 43 years at the site.

Mr M Patterson, of Little Baddow, applied to the council on July 27, who will decide on the plans by September 19.

  • TODAY is the deadline to sign a petition to protect green space in Colchester.

A residents and community group actioned an e-petition in May against housing being built on the Churchfields Avenue entrance to the Lakelands development,in Stanway.

More than 900 signatures have been collected so far for the land to remain as green open space.

Flagship Housing Group Ltd has applied for planning permission to build 28 affordable properties near the area on Tollgate Road.

The application was first submitted to Colchester Council in December.

Protesters have argued the application has blighted the entrance of the development and public space should be safeguarded as per the Local Plan.

  • PADDOCK land in Ardleigh is to be built on to provide two new homes after plans were approved.

Planners have approved the scheme for two detached properties on John De Bois Hill with associated outbuildings, garages and a shared access.

Tendring Council decided the proposal met the necessary economic, social and environmental criteria for sustainable development.

  • A CART lodge at a farm in Ardleigh is set to be demolished to make way for a new larger building.

Tendring Council planners have granted planning permission and listed building consent for the scheme at Hillhouse Farm in Lodge Lane.

The new cart lodge will be of a different design and the ground floor will accommodate an open garden workshop and two garage units.

Hill House Farm and two linked barns are Grade II listed, but the existing cart lodge is not.

  • A NUMBER of new history panels are set to be installed across Colchester.

The plaques will explain interesting points in the town’s history.

They will be located at Lexden Mount, in Wordsworth Road, St Botolph’s Priory, Gryme’s Dyke in Dugard Avenue, and Holy Trinity Church, in Trinity Street.

Colchester Council’s planning committee gave the proposals the go ahead when they came before them at a meeting.

  • TEN bike racks could be installed in a Colchester shopping centre.

Bosses at Culver Square have applied to put up the racks close to HMV.

Colchester Council has the final say and will make a decision by September 29.