187 Elmsleigh Drive Leigh-on-Sea Essex SS9 4JH

03/00530/CLECertificate of Lawful Use Dev ExistingApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 11 June 2003

Council decision: Grant Lawful Dev Certificate (Existing)Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Hot food takeaway (Class A3) (Certificate of Lawfulness as existing)

Received: 11 April 2003
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Southend-on-Sea City Council
Ward: Belfairs

ReceivedReceived11 Apr
ValidatedValidated11 Apr
Consult.Consultation8 May
TargetTarget Date5 Jun
DecidedDecided11 Jun

Decided in 61 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 187 Elmsleigh Drive Leigh-on-Sea Essex SS9 4JH. Southend has handled 458 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 5 days longer than Southend's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Belfairs. We hold 2,526 applications in total for the SS9 postcode area.

77% of amendment applications at Southend-on-Sea City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: SS9 4JH
Application type: Certificate of Lawful Use Dev Existing
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 11 April 2003
Last date for comments: 8 May 2003
Target decision date: 5 June 2003

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 8 - 10 Southbourne Grove Westcliff-on-Sea Essex SSO 9UR

Planning decision

Statutory period: 55 days

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.

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© 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.

Source: Southend

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