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27 Whitefriars Crescent Westcliff-on-sea Essex SS0 8EX

23/01925/CLECertificate of Lawful Use Dev ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 11 July 2024

Council decision: Grant Lawful Dev Certificate (Existing)Delegated (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

Use building as an HMO for over six people (Certificate of Lawful Development - Existing)

Received
5 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chalkwell
  1. Received5 Dec
  2. Validated5 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target30 Jan
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 219 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 27 Whitefriars Crescent Westcliff-on-sea Essex SS0 8EX. Southend has handled 458 applications of this type. This one was decided in 219 days, 23 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.

77% of amendment 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 8EX
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use Dev Existing
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 December 2023
Target decision date
30 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
9 Sherry Way Benfleet Essex SS7 2TR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
2

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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