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Beacon Hill House Latchingdon Road Cold Norton Chelmsford Essex CM3 6JG

26/00360/LDELawful Development - ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 21 July 2026

Delegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Claim for a lawful development certificate for retention of an outbuilding for use as a hobby room incidental to the existing residential dwelling.

Received
26 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Purleigh
  1. Received26 May
  2. Validated27 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Jul
  5. Decided21 Jul

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Beacon Hill House Latchingdon Road Cold Norton Chelmsford Essex CM3 6JG. Maldon has handled 101 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Purleigh. We hold 2,973 applications in total for the CM3 postcode area.

71% of amendment applications at Maldon District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CM3 6JG
Application type
Lawful Development - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cold Norton

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 May 2026
Target decision date
22 July 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
116 Oak Road Rivenhall CM8 3HG GB

Planning decision

Case officer
Jade Elles
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14936639
Comments
0

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: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    5 Nov

    Proposed extension to existing single storey hobby room

    PendingApplication26/00749/FUL

Source: Maldon

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