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49 Gordon Road Southend-on-sea Essex SS1 1NF

24/01357/PA64PriorApp:COU-Comm/Bus/ServiceToDwellingsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 23 October 2024

Council decision: COU Prior App GrantedDelegated (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

Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Class E) into 3 self-contained flats (Class C3) on lower ground, ground and first floors (Prior Approval)

Received
24 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Milton
Agent
Hedgehog Architects
  1. Received24 Aug
  2. Validated29 Aug
  3. Consult.26 Sep
  4. Target24 Oct
  5. Decided23 Oct

Decided in 55 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 49 Gordon Road Southend-on-sea Essex SS1 1NF. Southend has handled 5,232 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than Southend's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 63 applications across Milton. We hold 337 applications in total for the SS1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
SS1 1NF
Application type
PriorApp:COU-Comm/Bus/ServiceToDwellings
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 August 2024
Last date for comments
26 September 2024
Target decision date
24 October 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Hedgehog Architects
Agent address
28 Lime Avenue Leigh-on-sea Essex SS9 3PA United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

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.

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