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55 Woden Avenue, Stanway Colchester CO3 0QY

251609Certificate of Lawful Use - ProposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 11 September 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 change of use to a C2 residential institute - childrens home

Received
24 July 2025
Ward
Stanway
  1. Received24 Jul
  2. Validated24 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target18 Sep
  5. Decided11 Sep

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 55 Woden Avenue, Stanway Colchester CO3 0QY. Colchester has handled 293 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Colchester's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Stanway. We hold 737 applications in total for the CO3 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
CO3 0QY
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stanway

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 July 2025
Target decision date
18 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal result
l

Additional information

UPRN
10034894669
Documents
7

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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