53 West Street, Rochford, Essex, SS4 1BE
Refused on 26 February 2025
Council decision: Refuse Listed Building ConsentWeekly Schedule
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Proposal
Proposed change of use from use as ground floor shop with first floor flat over to use as a single dwellinghouse within the C3 Use Class. Erect ground floor rear extension with screened balcony on roof over accessed via French doors. Demolish lean-to to enlarge rear patio garden. Replace shopfront including new first floor sash window. Widen rear ground floor wall opening. Refurbish & repair internal fireplace(s). Remove part of first floor partition and internal widen access opening.
- Received
- 13 November 2024
- Decision level
- Weekly Schedule
- Council
- Rochford District Council
- Ward
- Roche South
- ReceivedReceived13 Nov
- ValidatedValidated13 Nov
- Consult.Consultation18 Dec
- TargetTarget Date8 Jan
- DecidedDecided26 Feb
Decided in 105 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a heritage application for a rear extension at 53 West Street, Rochford, Essex, SS4 1BE. Rochford has handled 15 applications of this type. This one was decided in 105 days, 7 weeks longer than Rochford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 35 applications across Roche South. We hold 123 applications in total for the SS4 postcode area.
91% of all 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
- SS4 1BE
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Rochford Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 November 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 1 January 2025
- Consultation end
- 18 December 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 27 November 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 18 December 2024
- Target decision date
- 8 January 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Studio 1, 1A-1B Leigh Park Road, LEIGH-ON-SEA, SS9 2DU
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 6 December 2024
- Advertisement expiry
- 27 December 2024
- Site notice start
- 11 December 2024
- Site notice end
- 1 January 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13557159
- Documents
- 14
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Rochford CA
- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, 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.
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