The Old Court Hotel 31 Bradford Street Braintree Essex CM7 9AS
Approved on 25 September 2023
Council decision: Application GRANTEDDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for a Certificate of Lawfulness for an existing use - Change of use from hotel to dwelling (4+ Years)
- Received
- 14 June 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Braintree District Council
- Ward
- BOCKING SOUTH
- ReceivedReceived14 Jun
- ValidatedValidated14 Jun
- Consult.Consultation25 Jul
- TargetTarget Date9 Aug
- DecidedDecided25 Sep
Decided in 103 days
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at The Old Court Hotel 31 Bradford Street Braintree Essex CM7 9AS. Braintree has handled 384 applications of this type. This one was decided in 103 days. The site is in the Braintree Town Centre and Bradford Street conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 937 applications in total for the CM7 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- CM7 9AS
- Application type
- Lawful Development Certificate(Existing)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Braintree & Bocking
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 June 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 25 July 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 25 July 2023
- Target decision date
- 9 August 2023
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 11
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Braintree Town Centre and Bradford Street
- 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.
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