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41 North Street, Rochford, Essex, SS4 1AB

25/00453/DPDPIADetermination Under Class IA(COU Retail)Approved
Prior approval

Approved on 8 September 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval of Details Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine if Prior Approval is required for Change of Use from a Use within Class E (Commercial, Business, Service) to a mixed use within Class E and up to 2 no. flats.

Received
20 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Roche South
  1. Received20 Jun
  2. Validated14 Jul
  3. Consult.2 Sep
  4. Target8 Sep
  5. Decided8 Sep

Decided in 56 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 41 North Street, Rochford, Essex, SS4 1AB. Rochford has handled 817 applications of this type. This one was decided in 80 days, 3 weeks longer than Rochford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 12 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.

Application details

Postcode
SS4 1AB
Application type
Determination Under Class IA(COU Retail)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rochford Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 July 2025
Consultation expiry
2 September 2025
Consultation start
12 August 2025
Consultation end
2 September 2025
Neighbour consultation start
15 July 2025
Neighbour consultation end
5 August 2025
Target decision date
8 September 2025
Permission expires
8 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 July 2025
Site notice end
12 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14112773
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Rochford CA
  • Listed building: Grade II: 37, North StreetOn or next to this site
  • 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.

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.

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