Doggetts Farm, Doggetts Chase, Rochford, Essex, SS4 3RN
Refused on 12 May 2025
Council decision: Refuse Lawful Development CertificateDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application to determine if Prior Approval is required for the proposed change of use of three agricultural buildings to, in combination, create 10 no. new residential dwellings (C3) under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended).
- Received
- 5 March 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Rochford District Council
- Ward
- Roche North And Rural
- ReceivedReceived5 Mar
- ValidatedValidated18 Mar
- Consult.Consultation9 Apr
- TargetTarget Date13 May
- DecidedDecided12 May
Decided in 55 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a change of use at Doggetts Farm , Doggetts Chase, Rochford, Essex, SS4 3RN. Rochford has handled 817 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than Rochford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Roche North And Rural. We hold 123 applications in total for the SS4 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- SS4 3RN
- Application type
- Determination Under Class M (COUAgr)
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Number of dwellings
- 10
- Parish
- Rochford Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 March 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 21 April 2025
- Consultation end
- 9 April 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 19 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 9 April 2025
- Target decision date
- 13 May 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Town Mill, Mill Lane, Stebbing, Dunmow, CM63SN
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 31 March 2025
- Site notice end
- 21 April 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13817131
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Listed building: Grade II: Bake/Brewhouse Adjacent to Rear (East) of Doggetts FarmhouseOn or next to this site · +1 more
- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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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