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5A Castle Road, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 7QD

13/00629/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 6 January 2014

Council decision: Application PermittedWeekly Schedule

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of Use From Gymnasium and Beauty Salon to 4no. Two Bedroomed Flats Incorporating New and Altered Fenestration, Installation of 2no. Balconies and Enclosure of Part of Existing Ground Floor Canopy to Form a Lobby

Received
17 October 2013
Decision level
Weekly Schedule
Ward
Whitehouse
  1. Received17 Oct
  2. Validated11 Nov
  3. Consult.4 Dec
  4. Target6 Jan
  5. Decided6 Jan

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 5A Castle Road, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 7QD. Rochford has handled 190 applications of this type. This one was decided in 81 days, 4 weeks longer than Rochford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. 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).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

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

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 November 2013
Consultation expiry
11 December 2013
Consultation start
14 November 2013
Neighbour consultation start
13 November 2013
Neighbour consultation end
4 December 2013
Target decision date
6 January 2014
Permission expires
6 January 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Design Associates, 92 London Road, Southend, Essex, SS1 1PG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
20 November 2013
Site notice end
11 December 2013

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-02957745
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: 5A Castle Road Rayleigh SS6 7QDRegister site at or near this address
  • 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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© 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.

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