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The Bell Hotel And Land Adjacent 20 Leigh Hill Leigh-On-Sea Essex SS9 2DN

13/00396/OUTMOutline Application MajorApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 25 June 2013

Council decision: Grant Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Demolish garage and storage buildings, erect 3 blocks comprising two, part 3/ part 4, and one 3 storey block totalling 15 flats, with balconies, amenity terrace, basement parking, and refuse storage, refurbish former Bell Hotel and convert into five flats with single storey rear extension, lay out access road, cycle and motorcycle storage, amenity area, retaining walls and landscaping (Outline)

Received
26 March 2013
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Leigh
Agent
The Planning & Design Bureau
  1. Received26 Mar
  2. Validated26 Mar
  3. Consult.3 May
  4. Target25 Jun
  5. Decided25 Jun

Decided in 91 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at The Bell Hotel And Land Adjacent 20 Leigh Hill Leigh-On-Sea Essex SS9 2DN. Southend has handled 587 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than Southend's typical decision time. The site is in the Leigh conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 10 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across Leigh. We hold 2,526 applications in total for the SS9 postcode area.

82% of outline 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 2DN
Application type
Outline Application Major
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
15

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 March 2013
Last date for comments
3 May 2013
Target decision date
25 June 2013
Committee meeting
29 May 2013

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Planning & Design Bureau
Agent address
45 Hart Road Thundersley Benfleet Essex SS7 3PB United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Documents
26

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Leigh Conservation Area
  • 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, 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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