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12 West Street Southend-On-Sea Essex SS2 6HJ

18/02210/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 13 March 2019

Council decision: Grant Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use to Escape Room (Class D2)(Retrospective)

Received
23 November 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Prittlewell
  1. Received23 Nov
  2. Validated16 Jan
  3. Consult.12 Feb
  4. Target13 Mar
  5. Decided13 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 12 West Street Southend-On-Sea Essex SS2 6HJ. Southend has handled 2,422 applications of this type. This one was decided in 110 days, 8 weeks longer than Southend's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Prittlewell. We hold 389 applications in total for the SS2 postcode area.

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

Postcode
SS2 6HJ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 January 2019
Last date for comments
12 February 2019
Target decision date
13 March 2019

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Prittlewell Conservation AreaNext 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, 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

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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.

© 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.

Source: Southend

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