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Site Of 123 To 153, High Street, Rayleigh, Essex

25/00784/LDCLawful Development CertificateApproved

Approved on 24 December 2025

Council decision: Grant Lawful Development CertificateDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for proposed one additional storey above part of the existing three-storey mixed-use building to provide four new residential flats with Secure cycle storage and refuse facilities provided at ground floor.

Received
24 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wheatley
  1. Received24 Oct
  2. Validated24 Oct
  3. Consult.2 Dec
  4. Target19 Dec
  5. Decided24 Dec

Decided in 61 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Site Of 123 To 153, High Street, Rayleigh, Essex,. Rochford has handled 190 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 5 days longer than Rochford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Wheatley.

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

Application type
Lawful Development Certificate
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rayleigh Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 October 2025
Consultation expiry
2 December 2025
Consultation start
11 November 2025
Consultation end
2 December 2025
Target decision date
19 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
UPP Architects + Town Planners, Labs Atrium, The Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8AH, United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14422853
Documents
28

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

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