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Land Rear Of 316 - 320 High Road Benfleet Essex SS7 5HB

22/0461/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 6 September 2022

Council decision: ApprovalPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolish existing commercial units and replace with block of 7No. flats with associated car parking, amenity space and amend existing vehicular access

Received
30 May 2022
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
5
Ward
St. Mary's
  1. Received30 May
  2. Validated6 Jun
  3. Consult.5 Aug
  4. Target1 Aug
  5. Decided6 Sep

Decided in 92 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land Rear Of 316 - 320 High Road Benfleet Essex SS7 5HB. Castle Point has handled 720 applications of this type. This one was decided in 99 days, 8 weeks longer than Castle Point's typical decision time. The site is in the Calf Hall and Gillians, Barnoldswick conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 35 applications across St. Mary's. We hold 1,303 applications in total for the SS7 postcode area.

84% of full applications at Castle Point Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SS7 5HB
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
District
ELECTRONIC FILE ONLY

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 June 2022
Last date for comments
5 August 2022
Target decision date
1 August 2022
Committee meeting
6 September 2022
Decision issued
7 September 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
5 Fountain Lane Hockley Essex SS5 4ST

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11250912
Documents
23

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO 7/88Protected tree on or next to this site
  • Brownfield land register: Land Rear Of 316 - 320 High Road, BenfleetRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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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© 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: Castle Point

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