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5 - 7 Crowstone Road Westcliff-on-sea Essex SS0 8BA

23/00389/PA64PriorApp:COU-Comm/Bus/ServiceToDwellingsRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 17 April 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval Refused COUDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Change of use from former Dental Surgery (Class E) into 5 self-contained flats (Class C3) layout parking spaces to front and cycle store to rear (Prior Approval)

Received
3 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chalkwell
Agent
Rackham Planning Ltd
  1. Received3 Mar
  2. Validated3 Mar
  3. Consult.6 Apr
  4. Target28 Apr
  5. Decided17 Apr

Decided in 45 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 5 - 7 Crowstone Road Westcliff-on-sea Essex SS0 8BA. Southend has handled 5,232 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Southend's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Chalkwell. We hold 1,220 applications in total for the SS0 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
SS0 8BA
Application type
PriorApp:COU-Comm/Bus/ServiceToDwellings
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 March 2023
Last date for comments
6 April 2023
Target decision date
28 April 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Rackham Planning Ltd
Agent address
2A High Street Thornbury Bristol BS35 2AQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
13

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

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.

Source: Southend

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