5 Richard Avenue Brightlingsea Colchester Essex CO7 0LP
Approved on 3 June 2015
Council decision: Approval - FullDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Rear extension with internal alterations to form additional first floor bedroom and bathroom plus extra ground floor living accommodation.
- Received
- 30 March 2015
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Tendring District Council
- Ward
- Brightlingsea
- ReceivedReceived30 Mar
- ValidatedValidated9 Apr
- Consult.Consultation5 May
- TargetTarget Date4 Jun
- DecidedDecided3 Jun
Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a rear extension at 5 Richard Avenue Brightlingsea Colchester Essex CO7 0LP. Tendring has handled 1,316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 2 weeks longer than Tendring's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Brightlingsea. We hold 2,580 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 0LP
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Brightlingsea Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 April 2015
- Consultation expiry
- 15 May 2015
- Neighbour consultation start
- 14 April 2015
- Neighbour consultation end
- 5 May 2015
- Last date for comments
- 15 May 2015
- Target decision date
- 4 June 2015
- Application expires
- 4 June 2015
- Permission expires
- 3 June 2018
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 186 Mersea Road Colchester Essex CO2 8QG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 24 April 2015
- Advertisement expiry
- 15 May 2015
- Site notice start
- 15 April 2015
- Site notice end
- 6 May 2015
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-4085253
- Documents
- 16
- Constraints
- 3
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: BrightlingseaNext to the site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage 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.
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Source: Tendring
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