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97 Southend Road, Rochford, Essex, SS4 1HX

25/00789/LDCLawful Development CertificateApproved

Approved on 24 December 2025

Council decision: Grant Lawful Development CertificateDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a proposed rear extension

Received
27 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Roche South
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated27 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Dec
  5. Decided24 Dec

Decided in 58 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 97 Southend Road, Rochford, Essex, SS4 1HX. Rochford has handled 190 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days. The site is in a conservation area. 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.

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
SS4 1HX
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rochford Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 October 2025
Target decision date
22 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
72 The Crescent, Hadleigh, Benfleet, SS7 2HF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14439408
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: RochfordNext to the 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 (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

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© 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.

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Source: Rochford

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