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64 Empress Avenue, West Mersea Essex CO5 8BL

221972Certificate of Lawful Use - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 October 2022

Council decision: Approve Certificate of Lawful Use or Development

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

We require to remove a window facing North at the front of the house, at ground floor level and brick it up with matching bricks, then form a new window opening at the front of the house facing East in the sameroom at ground level so we get more light int

Received
5 August 2022
Ward
Mersea & Pyefleet
  1. Received5 Aug
  2. Validated17 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target21 Oct
  5. Decided20 Oct

Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for window replacement at 64 Empress Avenue, West Mersea Essex CO5 8BL. Colchester has handled 293 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 3 weeks longer than Colchester's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 90 applications across Mersea & Pyefleet. We hold 1,567 applications in total for the CO5 postcode area.

75% of outline 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
CO5 8BL
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
West Mersea

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 August 2022
Target decision date
21 October 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
65 days

Additional information

UPRN
100090450129
Documents
13

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.

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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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