29 Sycamore Grove Southend-on-sea Essex SS2 5HE

25/00979/FULHFull Application - HouseholderRefused

Householder

Refused on 12 September 2025

Council decision: Refuse PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Install 2no. new vehicle crossovers onto Sycamore Grove (one retrospective)

Received: 11 July 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Southend-on-Sea City Council
Ward: Victoria
Agent: Design Spec Ltd.

ReceivedReceived11 Jul
ValidatedValidated18 Jul
Consult.Consultation8 Aug
TargetTarget Date12 Sep
DecidedDecided12 Sep

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 29 Sycamore Grove Southend-on-sea Essex SS2 5HE. Southend has handled 2,422 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than Southend's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across Victoria. We hold 389 applications in total for the SS2 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: SS2 5HE
Application type: Full Application - Householder
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 18 July 2025
Last date for comments: 8 August 2025
Target decision date: 12 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent: Design Spec Ltd.
Architect profile: DESIGN SPEC LIMITED
Agent address: Unit F2, Launchpad Cherry Orchard Way Rochford Essex SS4 1YH

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.

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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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