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663 High Road Benfleet Essex SS7 5SF

25/0478/CPA3MAPrior App - Comm/bus/service to ResidApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 26 August 2025

Council decision: Pr App Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior approval for the change of use from commercial (Use Class E) to residential (Use Class C3)

Received
30 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Tarpots
  1. Received30 Jun
  2. Validated30 Jun
  3. Consult.29 Jul
  4. Target25 Aug
  5. Decided26 Aug

Decided in 57 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 663 High Road Benfleet Essex SS7 5SF. Castle Point has handled 277 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 2 weeks longer than Castle Point's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 11 applications across Tarpots. We hold 1,303 applications in total for the SS7 postcode area.

85% of outline 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 5SF
Application type
Prior App - Comm/bus/service to Resid
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 June 2025
Last date for comments
29 July 2025
Target decision date
25 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
85 Great Portland St (1st Floor) London W1W 7LT

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14032148
Documents
26

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: High Road, Tarpots Town Centre, BenfleetRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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

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: Castle Point

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