Urban Storage Units Toys R Us Building Southernhay Basildon Essex SS14 1AZ
Approved on 7 November 2025
Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee7 conditions
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Proposal
Change of use from Retail (Class E(a)) to Storage (Class B8) with elevational improvements to rear yard
- Received
- 6 September 2025
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Basildon Borough Council
- Ward
- St Martins
- Agent
- Harris Lamb Ltd
- ReceivedReceived6 Sep
- ValidatedValidated8 Sep
- Consult.Consultation19 Oct
- TargetTarget Date7 Nov
- DecidedDecided7 Nov
Decided in 60 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Urban Storage Units Toys R Us Building Southernhay Basildon Essex SS14 1AZ. Basildon has handled 2,522 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Basildon's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across St Martins. We hold 337 applications in total for the SS14 postcode area.
86% of full 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 1AZ
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 19 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 25 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 19 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 25 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 19 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 19 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 7 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 7 November 2028
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Harris Lamb Ltd
- Agent address
- 4th Floor 4 Brindleyplace Birmingham B1 2LG
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Gordon Humphries
- Statutory period
- 60 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14276593
- Documents
- 14
- Constraints
- 1
Site constraints
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.
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Associated applications
- 20263 Nov
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This applicationApprovedFull25/01191/FULL
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