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Albany Court, Nelson Road, Leigh And Albany Laundry Eastwood Boulevard Westcliff-On-Sea Essex

13/01842/FULMFull Application MajorApproved
Full

Approved on 20 August 2014

Council decision: Grant Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Demolish Albany Court, erect 65 dwellings comprising of 62 flats in five separate blocks, erect three dwellinghouses, layout parking, amenity space refuse and cycle stores and form vehicular accesses onto Nelson Road

Received
18 December 2013
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blenheim Park
Agent
John Finch Partnership
  1. Received18 Dec
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.3 Mar
  4. Target20 Mar
  5. Decided20 Aug

Decided in 244 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a new dwelling at Albany Court, Nelson Road, Leigh And Albany Laundry Eastwood Boulevard Westcliff-On-Sea Essex. Southend has handled 2,422 applications of this type. This one was decided in 245 days, 27 weeks longer than Southend's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Blenheim Park.

84% of full 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

Application type
Full Application Major
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
65

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 December 2013
Last date for comments
3 March 2014
Target decision date
20 March 2014
Committee meeting
20 August 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent
John Finch Partnership
Architect profile
JOHN FINCH PARTNERSHIP LIMITED
Agent address
88 Broomfield Road Chelmsford Essex CM1 1SS

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Documents
89

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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