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252 - 254 London Road Westcliff-on-sea Essex SS0 7JG

25/00367/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 4 June 2025

Council decision: Grant Conditional PermissionDelegated (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 of a building from Class E to Class F1 (Place of Worship) (retrospective)

Received
12 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Milton
Agent
Planning Direct
  1. Received12 Mar
  2. Validated12 Mar
  3. Consult.22 Apr
  4. Target7 May
  5. Decided4 Jun

Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 252 - 254 London Road Westcliff-on-sea Essex SS0 7JG. Southend has handled 2,422 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 4 weeks longer than Southend's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 60 applications across Milton. 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 7JG
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 March 2025
Last date for comments
22 April 2025
Target decision date
7 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Planning Direct
Agent address
The Furnace The Maltings Princes Street Ipswich IP1 1SB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal history

3368521
Dismissed
Type: Householder (HAS)Procedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 21 August 2025Dev Type: Householder developmentsReason: Refusal

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

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© 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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