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Greenhouse At Ivanhoe Nurseries, Ironwell Lane, Hawkwell, Essex

24/00458/LDCLawful Development CertificateApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 6 November 2024

Council decision: Grant Lawful Development CertificateDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for proposed change of use of an agricultural building to a flexible commercial use for storage (B8) under Part 3 , Schedule 2, Class R of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development ) (England) Order 2015 as (amended )(GPDO). No operational development sought. Following decision for application ( 22/00967/DPDP3M) -The building footprint changing use is 200.64 m2 only, with the curtilage only as curtilage and not the building changing use.The site plan 384.1m2.outlined in red consists of the building changing use with a floor area 200.64 and curtilage .The change of use is for storage and distribution in an ambient environment,.Previous application (21/01115/DPDP4D) amounted to a site plan of 460 m2 with the building changing use of 240.24m2 the land of the site only as curtilage.The cumulative area of the floor plan area changing use on both applications (21/01115/DPDP4D) and( 22/00967/DPDP3M) would amount to 440.84 m2.Therefore the combination of both applications are within the limitations of 500m2 set at the date of application for the prior approval. .

Received
21 June 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hawkwell West
  1. Received21 Jun
  2. Validated21 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target16 Aug
  5. Decided6 Nov

Decided in 138 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Greenhouse At Ivanhoe Nurseries, Ironwell Lane, Hawkwell, Essex,. Rochford has handled 190 applications of this type. This one was decided in 138 days, 12 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 15 applications across Hawkwell West.

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
Lawful Development Certificate
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hawkwell Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 June 2024
Target decision date
16 August 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13166608
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Rochford
  • 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, 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.

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