160 Tower Street Brightlingsea Colchester Essex CO7 0AW
Approved on 11 February 2014
Council decision: Approval - FullDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from walk-in centre to storage facility.
- Received
- 17 December 2013
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Tendring District Council
- Ward
- Brightlingsea
- ReceivedReceived17 Dec
- ValidatedValidated17 Dec
- Consult.Consultation10 Jan
- TargetTarget Date11 Feb
- DecidedDecided11 Feb
Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 160 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 4 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
- 17 December 2013
- Consultation expiry
- 30 January 2014
- Consultation start
- 20 December 2013
- Consultation end
- 10 January 2014
- Neighbour consultation start
- 20 December 2013
- Neighbour consultation end
- 10 January 2014
- Last date for comments
- 30 January 2014
- Target decision date
- 11 February 2014
- Application expires
- 11 February 2014
- Permission expires
- 11 February 2017
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 27 December 2013
- Advertisement expiry
- 17 January 2014
- Site notice start
- 9 January 2014
- Site notice end
- 30 January 2014
Additional information
- Documents
- 18
- Constraints
- 3
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Conservation area: BrightlingseaPart 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 (20)
flood storage areas, 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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