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Swallow Aquatics, London Road, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 9ES

25/00329/LDCLawful Development CertificateRefused

Refused on 9 October 2025

Council decision: Refuse Lawful Development CertificateDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for existing use of the site within Use Class E.

Received
2 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Downhall And Rawreth
  1. Received2 May
  2. Validated2 May
  3. Consult.6 Jun
  4. Target27 Jun
  5. Decided9 Oct

Decided in 160 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Swallow Aquatics , London Road, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 9ES. Rochford has handled 190 applications of this type. This one was decided in 160 days, 15 weeks longer than Rochford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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).

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Application details

Postcode
SS6 9ES
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rawreth Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 May 2025
Consultation expiry
6 June 2025
Consultation start
16 May 2025
Consultation end
6 June 2025
Neighbour consultation start
16 May 2025
Neighbour consultation end
6 June 2025
Target decision date
27 June 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
York House, York Street, Manchester, M2 3BB

Planning decision

Case officer
Mr John Harrison - planning.applications@rochford.gov.uk
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13989690
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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.

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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