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Rayleigh House, 36 High Road, Rayleigh, Essex

11/00594/COUChange of UseRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 14 December 2011

Council decision: Refuse Planning Permission (COU)Weekly Schedule

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change Of Use of Ground Floor Flats to B1 (Offices)

Received
5 October 2011
Decision level
Weekly Schedule
Ward
Wheatley
  1. Received5 Oct
  2. Validated25 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 Dec
  5. Decided14 Dec

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Rayleigh House, 36 High Road, Rayleigh, Essex,. Rochford has handled 190 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Rochford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Wheatley.

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

Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rayleigh Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 October 2011
Consultation start
26 October 2011
Neighbour consultation start
26 October 2011
Target decision date
20 December 2011
Committee meeting
15 December 2011

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Quaker Meeting Rooms, 4 Percy Street, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU2 8HH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
28 October 2011

Additional information

Documents
15

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.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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