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Smith House Chester House Chester Hall Lane Basildon Essex SS14 3BS

16/00797/PACUPrior Approval Change of UseRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 1 August 2016

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Notification for Prior Approval for the conversion of the existing ground and first floors of part of Chester House (Smith House) from office (B1) to residential (C3) to form 22 residential units.

Received
9 June 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Fryerns
Agent
Paramount Planning Ltd
  1. Received9 Jun
  2. Validated9 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target4 Aug
  5. Decided1 Aug

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Smith House Chester House Chester Hall Lane Basildon Essex SS14 3BS. Basildon has handled 429 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Basildon's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 63 applications across Fryerns. We hold 337 applications in total for the SS14 postcode area.

80% of amendment applications at Basildon Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SS14 3BS
Application type
Prior Approval Change of Use
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
22

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 June 2016
Target decision date
4 August 2016
Application expires
4 August 2016
Permission expires
1 August 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
Paramount Planning Ltd
Agent address
OCC Building A 105 Eade Road London N4 1TJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Basildon

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