18 High Street Brightlingsea Essex CO7 0AE
Approved on 19 September 2024
Council decision: Prior Approval GivenDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Prior Approval Application under Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for conversion of the rear of the building which incorporated the ancillary office accommodation to the bank, into 2no. 1 Bedroom / 2 Person, self contained flats whilst keeping the 'shop' area to the front as retail accommodation.
- Received
- 25 July 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Tendring District Council
- Ward
- Brightlingsea
- ReceivedReceived25 Jul
- ValidatedValidated25 Jul
- Consult.Consultation21 Aug
- TargetTarget Date19 Sep
- DecidedDecided19 Sep
Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 18 High Street Brightlingsea Essex CO7 0AE. Tendring has handled 203 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Tendring's typical decision time. The site is in the Brightlingsea conservation area, with 6 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 2,580 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 0AE
- Application type
- Change of Use Prior Notification
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Brightlingsea Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 July 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 28 August 2024
- Consultation start
- 31 July 2024
- Consultation end
- 21 August 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 31 July 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 21 August 2024
- Last date for comments
- 28 August 2024
- Target decision date
- 19 September 2024
- Permission expires
- 19 September 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 142 Laindon Road Billericay Essex CM12 9LE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 7 August 2024
- Site notice end
- 28 August 2024
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13253425
- Documents
- 13
- Constraints
- 7
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Brightlingsea
- 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 (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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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Tendring
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