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166 - 168 High Street, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 7BS

10/00616/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 15 December 2010

Council decision: Grant Planning Permission (COU)Weekly Schedule

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change Of Use From A1 (Retail) to Office A2 (Chartered Accountants)

Received
21 September 2010
Decision level
Weekly Schedule
Ward
Wheatley
  1. Received21 Sep
  2. Validated22 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Dec
  5. Decided15 Dec

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 166 - 168 High Street, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 7BS. Rochford has handled 190 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 4 weeks longer than Rochford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Wheatley. We hold 450 applications in total for the SS6 postcode area.

94% of amendment applications at Rochford District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SS6 7BS
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rayleigh Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 October 2010
Consultation start
26 October 2010
Neighbour consultation start
26 October 2010
Target decision date
17 December 2010
Committee meeting
16 December 2010
Permission expires
15 December 2013

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: 162-168 High Street RayleighRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
  • 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.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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© 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.

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Source: Rochford

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