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159 West Road Shoeburyness Southend-on-sea Essex SS3 9EF

25/01147/PA64PriorApp:COU-Comm/Bus/ServiceToDwellingsRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 10 October 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Refused COUDelegated (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 from shop (Class E) to residential (Class C3), alterations to elevations (prior approval)

Received
14 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
West Shoebury
Agent
DK Building Designs
  1. Received14 Aug
  2. Validated18 Aug
  3. Consult.31 Oct
  4. Target13 Oct
  5. Decided10 Oct

Decided in 53 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 159 West Road Shoeburyness Southend-on-sea Essex SS3 9EF. Southend has handled 5,245 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across West Shoebury. We hold 530 applications in total for the SS3 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
SS3 9EF
Application type
PriorApp:COU-Comm/Bus/ServiceToDwellings
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 August 2025
Last date for comments
31 October 2025
Target decision date
13 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
DK Building Designs
Agent address
22 Hullbridge Road Rayleigh Essex SS6 9NZ

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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