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16 High Street Brightlingsea Colchester Essex CO7 0AE

25/00474/COUNOTChange of Use Prior NotificationAwaiting decision
Prior approval
Approximate site (title boundary)
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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 change of use from Class E (commercial, business and service) to Class C3 (dwellinghouses) to form one dwelling.

Received
20 March 2025
Decision due
15 May 2025
Ward
Brightlingsea
  1. Received20 Mar
  2. Validated20 Mar
  3. Consult.14 Apr
  4. Target15 May
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 14 April.

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About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 16 High Street Brightlingsea Colchester Essex CO7 0AE. Tendring has handled 203 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 20 March 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Brightlingsea conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications 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
20 March 2025
Consultation expiry
14 April 2025
Consultation start
24 March 2025
Consultation end
14 April 2025
Neighbour consultation start
24 March 2025
Neighbour consultation end
14 April 2025
Last date for comments
14 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Stirling House 3 Abbeyfields Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 3AQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13842168
Comments
0
Documents
11
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Brightlingsea
  • Listed building: Grade II: Unwins Wine ShopOn or next to this 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 (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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    3 Mar

    Legal Agreement in relation to RAMS for application reference 25/00474/COUNOT

    PendingLegal AgreementRelated26/00351/S106
  2. 2026
    2 Feb

    Discharge of conditions application for 25/00474/COUNOT

    RefusedDischarge of conditions26/00175/DISCON
  3. 2025
    20 Mar

    Prior Approval Application under Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted…

    This applicationPendingAmendment25/00474/COUNOT

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