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Thamesgate House 33 - 41 Victoria Avenue Southend-on-sea Essex

26/00370/PA64PriorApp:COU-Comm/Bus/ServiceToDwellingsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 20 August 2026

Council decision: COU Prior App GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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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 commercial, business and service (Class E) to 149 self-contained flats (Class C3) with two commercial units to front at ground floor, layout refuse and cycle storage and off-street parking (Prior Approval)

Received
19 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Victoria
Agent
Hybrid Planning and Development
  1. Received19 Mar
  2. Validated19 Mar
  3. Consult.12 May
  4. Target14 May
  5. Decided20 Aug

Decided in 154 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Thamesgate House 33 - 41 Victoria Avenue Southend-on-sea Essex. Southend has handled 5,232 applications of this type. This one was decided in 154 days, 14 weeks longer than Southend's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Victoria.

Application details

Application type
PriorApp:COU-Comm/Bus/ServiceToDwellings
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
149

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 March 2026
Last date for comments
12 May 2026
Target decision date
14 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Hybrid Planning and Development
Agent address
Studio 11 6-8 Cole Street London SE1 4YH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Victoria Avenue Opportunity SiteRegister 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.

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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