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Somerfield Supermarket 270 High Street Harwich Essex CO12 3PD

26/00044/COUNOTChange of Use Prior NotificationAwaiting decision
Prior approval
Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Prior Approval Application under Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for retaining commercial unit on the ground floor frontage and converting the remaining ground floor and the first floor into residential use comprising 8no. flats of the following mix: flat A 1bed/1person, flat B 2bed/4persons, flat C 2bed/3persons, flat D 1bed/2persons, flat E 3bed/4persons, flat G 1bed/2persons, flat H 1bed/1person. Five car parking spaces, residential cycle and refuse stores, commercial refuse store.

Received
12 January 2026
Decision due
11 March 2026
Public comments
4
Ward
Dovercourt Bay
  1. Received12 Jan
  2. Validated14 Jan
  3. Consult.4 Feb
  4. Target11 Mar
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 4 February.

Comment on the council's siteDocuments (26)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Somerfield Supermarket 270 High Street Harwich Essex CO12 3PD. Tendring has handled 203 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 12 January 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 7 applications across Dovercourt Bay. We hold 529 applications in total for the CO12 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
CO12 3PD
Application type
Change of Use Prior Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Harwich Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 January 2026
Consultation expiry
12 February 2026
Consultation start
14 January 2026
Consultation end
4 February 2026
Neighbour consultation start
14 January 2026
Neighbour consultation end
4 February 2026
Last date for comments
12 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
14 Ashburnham Road Southend On Sea SS1 1QD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 January 2026
Site notice end
12 February 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14611860
Documents
26
Constraints
3

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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