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Richmond House 73 Victoria Avenue Southend-On-Sea Essex

19/01868/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 7 February 2020

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use to ground floor commercial Units (Use Classes A1, A3, D1) to form six self contained flats (Class C3), alterations to elevations and relocate exiting bike store

Received
11 October 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Victoria
  1. Received11 Oct
  2. Validated11 Oct
  3. Consult.14 Nov
  4. Target6 Dec
  5. Decided7 Feb

Decided in 119 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Richmond House 73 Victoria Avenue Southend-On-Sea Essex. Southend has handled 2,422 applications of this type. This one was decided in 119 days, 9 weeks longer than Southend's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across Victoria.

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
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 October 2019
Last date for comments
14 November 2019
Target decision date
6 December 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
853-855 London Road Westcliff On Sea Essex SS0 9SZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
18

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.

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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