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32 Gavin Way, Highwoods Colchester CO4 9FF

232425Certificate of Lawful Use - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 19 December 2023

Council decision: Approve Certificate of Lawful Use or Development

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a proposed loft conversion with insertion of roof lights.

Received
12 October 2023
Ward
Highwoods
  1. Received12 Oct
  2. Validated26 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target21 Dec
  5. Decided19 Dec

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 32 Gavin Way, Highwoods Colchester CO4 9FF. Colchester has handled 293 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than Colchester's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 5 applications across Highwoods. We hold 1,001 applications in total for the CO4 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
CO4 9FF
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Colchester

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 October 2023
Target decision date
21 December 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal result
l

Additional information

UPRN
100090452592
Documents
4

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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