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74 Chelmsford Road Holland On Sea Clacton On Sea Essex CO15 5DJ

25/01813/LUPROPCertificate of LU and Devl (proposed)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 9 February 2026

Council decision: Lawful Use/development RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Application for Lawful Development Certificate for Change of Use from dwelling house Use Class C3 to Use Class C2 childrens home for up to 2 children under the supervision of adult carers.

Received
10 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Bartholomews
  1. Received10 Dec
  2. Validated15 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target9 Feb
  5. Decided9 Feb

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 74 Chelmsford Road Holland On Sea Clacton On Sea Essex CO15 5DJ. Tendring has handled 407 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 12 days longer than Tendring's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 11 applications across St Bartholomews. We hold 366 applications in total for the CO15 postcode area.

77% of outline 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
CO15 5DJ
Application type
Certificate of LU and Devl (proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Clacton Non Parished

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 December 2025
Target decision date
9 February 2026
Permission expires
9 February 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Humphreys and Sons - Architecture and Surveyors WeWork 145 City Road London EC1V 1AZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14556131
Comments
0
Documents
10
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

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, 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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