165 - 167 Tower Street Brightlingsea Colchester Essex CO7 0AW
Approved on 21 December 2009
Council decision: Approval - FullDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Demolition of existing commercial premises and rebuild to link with existing showroom including change of use from B2 general industrial to A1 retail.
- Received
- 26 October 2009
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Tendring District Council
- Ward
- Brightlingsea
- ReceivedReceived26 Oct
- ValidatedValidated11 Nov
- Consult.Consultation29 Sep
- TargetTarget Date6 Jan
- DecidedDecided21 Dec
Decided in 40 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for demolition at 165 - 167 Tower Street Brightlingsea Colchester Essex CO7 0AW. Tendring has handled 1,316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Tendring's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Brightlingsea. We hold 2,585 applications in total for the CO7 postcode area.
90% of full applications at Tendring District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- CO7 0AW
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Brightlingsea Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 November 2009
- Consultation expiry
- 29 September 2016
- Consultation start
- 8 September 2016
- Consultation end
- 29 September 2016
- Neighbour consultation start
- 17 November 2009
- Neighbour consultation end
- 8 December 2009
- Last date for comments
- 29 September 2016
- Target decision date
- 6 January 2010
- Permission expires
- 21 December 2012
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 11 The Causeway Boxford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 5JR
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 24 November 2009
- Site notice end
- 15 December 2009
Additional information
- Documents
- 25
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
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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Source: Tendring
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