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47 Straight Road, Colchester CO3 9BY

201912Full (8 Week Determination)Refused
Full

Refused on 27 November 2020

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed 2 storey side, single storey rear extension

Received
4 September 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Prettygate
  1. Received4 Sep
  2. Validated4 Sep
  3. Consult.12 Oct
  4. Target27 Nov
  5. Decided27 Nov

Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a single storey rear extension at 47 Straight Road, Colchester CO3 9BY. Colchester has handled 3,122 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 4 weeks longer than Colchester's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Prettygate. We hold 734 applications in total for the CO3 postcode area.

84% of full applications at Colchester City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CO3 9BY
Application type
Full (8 Week Determination)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Colchester

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 September 2020
Consultation expiry
12 October 2020
Consultation start
9 September 2020
Consultation end
12 October 2020
Target decision date
27 November 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
84 days

Appeal

Appeal date
12 February 2021
Appeal result
Dismissed
Appeal decision date
28 April 2021

Additional information

UPRN
100090478260
Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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, 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

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© 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.

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Source: Colchester

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