43 Oaklands Avenue, Colchester CO3 9ET
Proposal
Change of use from residential annexe to sui generis residential annexe and short stay holiday let.
- Received
- 18 September 2025
- Decided
- 10 November 2025 · Approve Conditional
- Council
- Colchester City Council
- Ward
- Prettygate
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- ReceivedSubmitted18 Sep
- ValidatedValidated18 Sep
- Consult.Consultation18 Nov
- TargetTarget Date13 Nov
- DecidedDecided10 Nov
Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at 43 Oaklands Avenue, Colchester CO3 9ET. Colchester has handled 3,122 applications of this type and approves 87% of them, typically deciding them in 56 days. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Colchester's median. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 29 applications across Prettygate. We hold 716 applications in total for the CO3 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202615 Sep
Application for the removal of condition 5 following application 252033.
PendingVariation of conditions (s73)261663 - 202518 Jul
Application for variation of condition 4 following grant of planning permission for application 241578
WithdrawnVariation of conditions (s73)251538 - 202430 Jul
Conversion of existing garage to form annex/gym
ApprovedFull (8 Week Determination)241578
Planning constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Scheduled monument: Gryme's Dyke Middle: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of…Next to the site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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Also checked, none recorded (22)
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