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First And Second Floor Unique House 147 High Street Billericay Essex CM12 9AB

24/00199/PACUPrior Approval Change of UseRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 16 April 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Approval sought under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (GPDO) (England) Order 2015 for the change of use from Use Class E (Commercial, Business and Service) to Use Class C3 (Residential) comprising 8 x 1-bed and 2 x 2-bed apartments.

Received
22 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Billericay East
Agent
Phase 2 Planning
  1. Received22 Feb
  2. Validated23 Feb
  3. Consult.24 Mar
  4. Target19 Apr
  5. Decided16 Apr

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at First And Second Floor Unique House 147 High Street Billericay Essex CM12 9AB. Basildon has handled 429 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. The site is in the Billericay Town Centre conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 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 9AB
Application type
Prior Approval Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Billericay Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 February 2024
Consultation expiry
28 March 2024
Consultation start
29 February 2024
Consultation end
24 March 2024
Neighbour consultation start
4 March 2024
Neighbour consultation end
28 March 2024
Last date for comments
28 March 2024
Target decision date
19 April 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Phase 2 Planning
Agent address
270 Avenue West Skyline 120 Great Notley Braintree Essex CM77 7AA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
29 February 2024
Advertisement expiry
24 March 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12796399
Documents
15
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*: Burghstead HouseOn or next to this site
  • 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 (20)

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, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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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