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1 Brewery House, Brook Street, Wivenhoe Essex CO7 9DS

240606Certificate of Lawful Use - ProposedAwaiting decision
Outline / PiP
Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for the following proposal: Proposed Permission was granted to use residential building as office for my accountancy business. I am now retired and wish the building to revert to residential. No building w

Received
20 March 2024
Decision due
15 May 2024
Ward
Wivenhoe
  1. Received20 Mar
  2. Validated20 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target15 May
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is an outline application at 1 Brewery House, Brook Street, Wivenhoe Essex CO7 9DS. Colchester has handled 293 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 20 March 2024 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Wivenhoe conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 22 applications across Wivenhoe. We hold 2,579 applications in total for the CO7 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
CO7 9DS
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wivenhoe

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 March 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal result
l

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Wivenhoe
  • Listed building: Grade II: 8 and 9, Brook StreetOn this site · +1 more

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, 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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© 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.

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