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40 Galton Road Westcliff-on-sea Essex SS0 8LA

23/00808/FULHFull Application - HouseholderApproved
Householder

Approved on 6 September 2023

Council decision: Grant Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Convert loft into habitable accommodation, erect single storey side and first floor side extensions, erect two storey rear extension with balcony at roof level and two first floor balconies, erect single storey rear extension with roof lantern, demolish existing bay window and form two-storey bay window to front, box window to first floor, erect a porch and install replacement windows and doors (amended proposal)

Received
16 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chalkwell
  1. Received16 May
  2. Validated5 Jun
  3. Consult.1 Sep
  4. Target31 Jul
  5. Decided6 Sep

Decided in 93 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a single storey rear extension at 40 Galton Road Westcliff-on-sea Essex SS0 8LA. Southend has handled 2,422 applications of this type. This one was decided in 113 days, 8 weeks longer than Southend's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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
SS0 8LA
Application type
Full Application - Householder
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 June 2023
Last date for comments
1 September 2023
Target decision date
31 July 2023

Applicant and agent

Architect profile
METSON ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
Studio 1 1A-1B Leigh Park Road LEIGH-ON-SEA SS9 2DU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
14

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 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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