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The Commandants House 2 Mess Road Shoeburyness Southend-on-sea Essex SS3 9UJ

24/01144/TCATree(s) in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 23 August 2024

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prune over hanging Sycamore tree branches at 4 Mess Road by a maximum 3m back from the chimney (Application for works to trees in a Conservation Area)

Received
17 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shoeburyness
  1. Received17 Jul
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.20 Aug
  4. Target28 Aug
  5. Decided23 Aug

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Commandants House 2 Mess Road Shoeburyness Southend-on-sea Essex SS3 9UJ. Southend has handled 261 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 3 weeks quicker than Southend's typical decision time. The site is in the Shoebury Garrison conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Shoeburyness. We hold 529 applications in total for the SS3 postcode area.

93% of trees 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
SS3 9UJ
Application type
Tree(s) in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2024
Last date for comments
20 August 2024
Target decision date
28 August 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (19)

flood storage areas, green belt, 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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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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