Eastwood Community Nursery Len Forge Centre Eastwoodbury Lane Southend-on-sea Essex SS2 6UH

23/00514/BC4Borough Council Regulation 4Approved

Approved on 3 August 2023

Council decision: Grant Conditional PermissionPlanning committee

Proposal

Erect single storey timber building for use as nursery school to front of main building (Amended Proposal)

Received: 24 March 2023
Decision level: Planning committee
Council: Southend-on-Sea City Council
Ward: St Laurence

ReceivedReceived24 Mar
ValidatedValidated24 Mar
Consult.Consultation16 Jun
TargetTarget Date19 May
DecidedDecided3 Aug

Decided in 132 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Eastwood Community Nursery Len Forge Centre Eastwoodbury Lane Southend-on-sea Essex SS2 6UH. Southend has handled 52 applications of this type. This one was decided in 132 days, 11 weeks longer than Southend's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 11 applications across St Laurence. We hold 387 applications in total for the SS2 postcode area.

83% of all 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 6UH
Application type: Borough Council Regulation 4
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 24 March 2023
Last date for comments: 16 June 2023
Target decision date: 19 May 2023
Committee meeting: 2 August 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent: Bell & Masterson
Agent address: 7 Donnington Hospital Oxford Road Donnington Newbury Berkshire RG14 2JD

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 11

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Flood zone 2: Medium 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.

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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.

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