Victoria Plaza Shopping Centre High Street Southend-on-sea Essex SS2 5SG
Proposal
Proposed use of unit G38 as Class E (certificate of lawful development - proposed)
- Received
- 17 July 2025
- Decided
- 5 September 2025 · Grant Lawful Dev Certificate (Proposed)
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Southend-on-Sea City Council
- Ward
- Victoria
- ReceivedReceived17 Jul
- ValidatedValidated17 Jul
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date11 Sep
- DecidedDecided5 Sep
Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)
This is an outline application at Victoria Plaza Shopping Centre High Street Southend-on-sea Essex SS2 5SG. Southend has handled 587 applications of this type and approves 79% of them, typically deciding them in 56 days. This one was decided in 50 days, 6 days quicker than Southend's median. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 46 applications across Victoria. We hold 381 applications in total for the SS2 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202525 Jun
Install full motion digital advertisements to existing digital advertisement screen on north elevation
WithdrawnAdvertisement consent25/00903/ADV - 20259 Jun
Install relief sculpture and small plaque to the West facing elevation of Victoria Shopping Centre for 5 years
ApprovedBorough Council Regulation 425/00833/BC4 - 20252 May
Replace existing internally illuminated static signage with internally illuminated full motion advertising…
ApprovedAdvertisement consent25/00668/ADV - 202321 Jun
Replace existing externally illuminated signage with internally illuminated LED advertising display unit to…
ApprovedAdvertisement consent23/01057/ADV
Planning constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Brownfield land register: Chartwell House Chartwell Square (Plaza Centre), Southend-On-Sea, Essex, SS2 5SPRegister 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 (21)
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 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.
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Consultants on this application
- Savills (UK) Ltd · Agent for this application
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