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13 Queen Street, Colchester CO1 2PG

252466Class M retail or betting office or pay day loan shop to dwellinghouseRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 14 January 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Required (Refused)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed change of use from Use Class E, or betting office or pay day load shopto mixed use including up to two flats Use Class C3.

Received
11 November 2025
Ward
Castle
  1. Received11 Nov
  2. Validated19 Nov
  3. Consult.15 Dec
  4. Target14 Jan
  5. Decided14 Jan

Decided in 56 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 13 Queen Street, Colchester CO1 2PG. Colchester has handled 4,823 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Colchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Colchester Area 1 conservation area, with 20 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 164 applications in total for the CO1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
CO1 2PG
Application type
Class M retail or betting office or pay day loan shop to dwellinghouse
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Colchester

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 November 2025
Consultation expiry
15 December 2025
Consultation end
15 December 2025
Target decision date
14 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

UPRN
100091244678

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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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