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First Floor At 29, High Street, Rayleigh, Essex

25/00049/DPDP3JDetermination Under Class J(COUbuilding)Awaiting decision
Prior approval
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed change of use of the first floor from Commercial (Class E) to residential (Use Class C3) under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended). The change of use will result in the creation of 2no. single-bedroom apartments.

Received
22 January 2025
Decision due
19 March 2025
Ward
Wheatley
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated22 Jan
  3. Consult.20 Feb
  4. Target19 Mar
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 20 February.

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at First Floor At 29, High Street, Rayleigh, Essex,. Rochford has handled 817 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 22 January 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Wheatley. We hold 450 applications in total for the SS6 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
SS6 7EW
Application type
Determination Under Class J(COUbuilding)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rayleigh Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 January 2025
Consultation expiry
4 March 2025
Consultation end
20 February 2025
Neighbour consultation start
30 January 2025
Neighbour consultation end
20 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
171 High Street, Rayleigh, SS6 7QA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
11 February 2025
Site notice end
4 March 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13712005
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Rayleigh 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 (21)

flood storage 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Source: Rochford

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