55 Tower Street Brightlingsea Colchester Essex CO7 0AN
Approved on 17 June 2016
Council decision: Approval - FullDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Rear single storey and first floor extension.
- Received
- 21 April 2016
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Tendring District Council
- Ward
- Brightlingsea
- ReceivedReceived21 Apr
- ValidatedValidated22 Apr
- Consult.Consultation20 May
- TargetTarget Date17 Jun
- DecidedDecided17 Jun
Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an extension at 55 Tower Street Brightlingsea Colchester Essex CO7 0AN. Tendring has handled 1,316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Tendring's typical decision time. The site is in the Brightlingsea conservation area. 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 0AN
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Brightlingsea Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 April 2016
- Consultation expiry
- 14 June 2016
- Neighbour consultation start
- 29 April 2016
- Neighbour consultation end
- 20 May 2016
- Last date for comments
- 14 June 2016
- Target decision date
- 17 June 2016
- Permission expires
- 17 June 2019
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Beaver House Plough Road Centre Plough Road Great Bentley Essex CO7 8LG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 24 May 2016
- Site notice end
- 14 June 2016
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-5075286
- Documents
- 9
- Constraints
- 3
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: BrightlingseaPart of the site
- 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, 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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