73 Silverdale Avenue Westcliff-on-sea Essex SS0 9BB

24/01246/CLECertificate of Lawfulness (Existing)Approved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 15 October 2024

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

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

Proposal

Use building as five bed (six person)HMO (Class C4) (certificate of lawful development - existing)

Received: 5 August 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Southend-on-Sea City Council
Ward: Westborough

ReceivedReceived5 Aug
ValidatedValidated20 Aug
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date15 Oct
DecidedDecided15 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 73 Silverdale Avenue Westcliff-on-sea Essex SS0 9BB. Southend has handled 458 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 2 weeks longer than Southend's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 14 applications across Westborough. 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 9BB
Application type: Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing)
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 20 August 2024
Target decision date: 15 October 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

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.

Source: Southend

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