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Pilgrim House High Street Billericay Essex CM12 9XY

20/00414/PACUPrior Approval Change of UseApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 15 May 2020

Council decision: Prior Approval ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Notification for prior approval for a proposed change of use of a building from Office Use (Class B1(a)) to a Residential Use (Class C3) comprising 10 x 1-bedroom flats and 7 x 2-bedroom flats, with 19 car parking spaces

Received
7 April 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Billericay East
  1. Received7 Apr
  2. Validated14 Apr
  3. Consult.9 May
  4. Target11 Jun
  5. Decided15 May

Decided in 31 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Pilgrim House High Street Billericay Essex CM12 9XY. Basildon has handled 429 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than Basildon's typical decision time. The site is in the Billericay Town Centre conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There have been 11 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 117 applications across Billericay East. We hold 1,838 applications in total for the CM12 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
CM12 9XY
Application type
Prior Approval Change of Use
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
10
Parish
Billericay Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 April 2020
Consultation expiry
9 May 2020
Consultation start
17 April 2020
Consultation end
9 May 2020
Neighbour consultation start
17 April 2020
Neighbour consultation end
9 May 2020
Last date for comments
9 May 2020
Target decision date
11 June 2020
Permission expires
15 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
RPS
Agent address
20 Farringdon Street London EC4A 4AB

Planning decision

Statutory period
58 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08619020
Documents
17
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Billericay Town Centre
  • Listed building: Grade II: 131 and 133, High StreetOn or next to this site · +3 more
  • Brownfield land register: Pilgrim House, High Street, Billericay, Essex. CM12 9XYRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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© 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.

Planning history at this site

11 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2024
    25 Sep

    Section 211 notice - Relandscaping of the rear gardens to create a function and useable space for the…

    WithdrawnSection 211 Notifications24/01119/S211
  2. 2024
    14 Jun

    To establish whether amendments to the layout of each floor to align with façade alterations granted under…

    ApprovedNon-material amendment24/00670/NMABAS
  3. 2024
    5 Apr

    Rear facade works comprising enlargement of existing first floor windows, creation of new windows at second…

    ApprovedFull Application24/00377/FULL
  4. 2024
    25 Mar

    Prior Approval sought under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (GPDO) (England)…

    ApprovedPrior Approval Change of Use24/00331/PACU
  5. 2020
    3 Sep

    T1 (Horse Chestnut) of TPO/20/01

    ApprovedWorks To Trees20/01112/TPOBAS
  6. 2019
    13 Jun

    T1 of TPO/20/01 (Horse Chestnut) 1.5 metre crown reduction and crown lift to 5 metres to appropriate live…

    ApprovedWorks To Trees19/00918/TPOBAS

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