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East Beach Open Space East Beach Shoeburyness Southend-on-sea Essex

25/01213/BC3Borough Council Regulation 3Approved

Approved on 11 December 2025

Council decision: Grant Conditional PermissionPlanning committee

Proposal

Construct an accessible play area in an existing area of amenity grass, including collection of accessible and inclusive play equipment aimed at a range of ages and abilities, install new low-level boundary fencing, access paths, soft landscaping and planted boundary mounds and install cycle parking

Received
29 August 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Shoeburyness
Agent
Ares Landscape Architects
  1. Received29 Aug
  2. Validated1 Sep
  3. Consult.6 Dec
  4. Target27 Oct
  5. Decided11 Dec

Decided in 101 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at East Beach Open Space East Beach Shoeburyness Southend-on-sea Essex. Southend has handled 52 applications of this type. This one was decided in 104 days, 7 weeks longer than Southend's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Shoeburyness.

83% of all 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

Application type
Borough Council Regulation 3
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 September 2025
Last date for comments
6 December 2025
Target decision date
27 October 2025
Committee meeting
10 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ares Landscape Architects
Agent address
Unit 113 Pill Box London E2 6GG

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.

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.

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    29 Aug

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