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The Yard Lime Street Brightlingsea Essex CO7 0BH

25/01552/FULRefused

Refused on 10 December 2025

Council decision: Refusal - Full

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Planning Application - Retrospective change of use from Builders Yard to B2 (General Industrial) and retention of small storage unit.

Received
15 October 2025
  1. Received15 Oct
  2. Validated15 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Dec

Decided in 56 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at The Yard Lime Street Brightlingsea Essex CO7 0BH. Tendring has handled 5,124 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Tendring's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,584 applications in total for the CO7 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
CO7 0BH

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 October 2025

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: BrightlingseaNext to 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Source: Tendring

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