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The Boatyard Shipyard Estate Copperas Road Brightlingsea Essex CO7 0AR

21/01826/LUEXCertificate Of LU and Devl (existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 17 February 2022

Council decision: Lawful Use Certificate GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Confirmation that the following three applications have commenced and remain extant: TEN/241/85 - Provision of general berthing facilities, changing rooms/store/office, car and boat parking, toilets and related boundary fencing, together with related engineering works to the waterfront TEN/330/76 - Car park, toilets and pontoons for marine facilities, Shipyard Estate, Brightlingsea, Essex; TEN/1312/74 - Outline for industrial refurbishing, new warehousing and wharfage and marine facilities at Brightlingsea Shipyard, Brightlingsea.

Received
25 October 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
8
Ward
Brightlingsea
  1. Received25 Oct
  2. Validated25 Oct
  3. Consult.26 Nov
  4. Target20 Dec
  5. Decided17 Feb

Decided in 115 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Boatyard Shipyard Estate Copperas Road Brightlingsea Essex CO7 0AR. Tendring has handled 203 applications of this type. This one was decided in 115 days, 9 weeks longer than Tendring's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. 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.

85% of amendment 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 0AR
Application type
Certificate Of LU and Devl (existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Brightlingsea Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 October 2021
Consultation expiry
4 December 2021
Consultation start
5 November 2021
Consultation end
26 November 2021
Neighbour consultation start
5 November 2021
Neighbour consultation end
26 November 2021
Last date for comments
4 December 2021
Target decision date
20 December 2021
Permission expires
17 February 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
13 November 2021
Site notice end
4 December 2021

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10337013
Documents
51

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • SSSI: Colne Estuary SSSIPart of the site
  • Special Area of Conservation: Essex EstuariesPart of the site
  • Special Protection Area: Colne Estuary (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 2)Part of the site
  • Ramsar wetland: Colne Estuary (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 2)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 (18)

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, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    9 May

    Non Material Amendment to application reference 18/00635/FUL

    ApprovedNon-material amendment23/00660/NMA

Source: Tendring

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