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18 Catchpool Road, Colchester Essex CO1 1XN

250589Certificate of Lawful Use - ProposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 19 May 2025

Council decision: Refuse Certificate of Lawful Use or Development

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for proposed partial conversion of existing garage to form additional living accommodation.Works include internal knock-through to create access between the existing house and the converted garage space, i

Received
22 March 2025
Ward
Castle
  1. Received22 Mar
  2. Validated24 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target19 May
  5. Decided19 May

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 18 Catchpool Road, Colchester Essex CO1 1XN. Colchester has handled 293 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across Castle. We hold 164 applications in total for the CO1 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
CO1 1XN
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Colchester

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 March 2025
Target decision date
19 May 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal result
l

Additional information

UPRN
10024406797
Documents
8

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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© 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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