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3 Leigh Park Road Leigh-on-sea Essex SS9 2DU

25/00581/TCATree(s) in Conservation AreaRefused

Refused on 23 May 2025

Council decision: ObjectDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Fell to ground level and treat stumps with herbicide to inhibit regrowth to one Cordyline (T1), one Horse Chestnut (T3), one Oak (T5) and one Japanese Maple (T8), remove stems within 3m of area of damage to one Pyracantha (H2) to rear (Application for works to trees in a Conservation Area)

Received
11 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Leigh
  1. Received11 Apr
  2. Validated11 Apr
  3. Consult.22 May
  4. Target23 May
  5. Decided23 May

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 3 Leigh Park Road Leigh-on-sea Essex SS9 2DU. Southend has handled 261 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than Southend's typical decision time. The site is in the Leire conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across Leigh. We hold 2,526 applications in total for the SS9 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
SS9 2DU
Application type
Tree(s) in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Leigh Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 April 2025
Last date for comments
22 May 2025
Target decision date
23 May 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Leigh Conservation Area
  • Brownfield land register: 20 (The Bell Hotel And Land Adjacent) Leigh Hill, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, SS9 2DNRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (20)

flood storage 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

Source: Southend

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