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612 London Road Westcliff-on-sea Essex

25/00378/PA64PriorApp:COU-Comm/Bus/ServiceToDwellingsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 13 May 2025

Council decision: COU Prior App GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Office (Class E) to 1 self-contained flat (Class C3) (Prior Approval)

Received
12 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chalkwell
  1. Received12 Mar
  2. Validated19 Mar
  3. Consult.17 Apr
  4. Target14 May
  5. Decided13 May

Decided in 55 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 612 London Road Westcliff-on-sea Essex. Southend has handled 5,232 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Southend's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Chalkwell.

Application details

Application type
PriorApp:COU-Comm/Bus/ServiceToDwellings
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 March 2025
Last date for comments
17 April 2025
Target decision date
14 May 2025

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.

Source: Southend

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