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Leeds House, 5 Crouch Street East, Colchester Essex CO3 3EN

232911Full (8 Week Determination)Approved
Full

Approved on 2 October 2024

Council decision: Approve Conditional

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retrospective planning permission to use the upperfloor as a bar within the sui generis.

Received
28 December 2023
Ward
Castle
  1. Received28 Dec
  2. Validated14 Feb
  3. Consult.6 Mar
  4. Target2 Oct
  5. Decided2 Oct

Decided in 231 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Leeds House, 5 Crouch Street East, Colchester Essex CO3 3EN. Colchester has handled 3,122 applications of this type. This one was decided in 279 days, 32 weeks longer than Colchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Colchester Area 1 conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across Castle. 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 3EN
Application type
Full (8 Week Determination)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Colchester

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 February 2024
Consultation expiry
6 March 2024
Consultation end
6 March 2024
Target decision date
2 October 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
231 days

Appeal

Appeal result
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Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Colchester Area 1
  • Listed building: Roman Wall, High Street, ColchesterOn or next to this site
  • Scheduled monument: Town WallPart of the site
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, green belt, 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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© 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: Colchester

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