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The Yard Lime Street Brightlingsea Essex CO7 0BH

26/00225/LUEXCertificate Of LU and Devl (existing)Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 8 April 2026

Council decision: Lawful Use/development RefusedDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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Proposal

Application for Lawful Development Certificate for Existing Use or Development to confirm the use class as Class E(g)(iii) (formally B1 light industrial) and storage specifically including the use of hand power tools.

Received
11 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
6
Ward
Brightlingsea
  1. Received11 Feb
  2. Validated11 Feb
  3. Consult.6 Apr
  4. Target8 Apr
  5. Decided8 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Yard Lime Street Brightlingsea Essex CO7 0BH. Tendring has handled 203 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. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Brightlingsea. We hold 2,584 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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Why it was refused

  1. The Local Planning Authority is not satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that the existing use of the site known as 'The Yard' falls within Class E(g)(iii) of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended). The applicant has failed to provide sufficiently precise and authoritative evidence to demonstrate a continuous period of Class E(g)(iii) use for at least 10 years, as required under Section 191 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. Furthermore, the lawful use of the site remains that permitted under planning permission TEN/1033/78, namely a builders' store within Use Class B8, subject to restrictive operational conditions. No evidence has been submitted to indicate that any breach of these conditions, or any material change of use, has occurred continuously for a period of 10 years. Accordingly, the Local Planning Authority is not satisfied that the use described in the application is lawful, and the certificate is therefore refused.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
CO7 0BH
Application type
Certificate Of LU and Devl (existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Brightlingsea Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 February 2026
Consultation expiry
6 April 2026
Last date for comments
6 April 2026
Target decision date
8 April 2026
Permission expires
8 April 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Beaver House Plough Road Great Bentley Colchester Essex CO7 8LG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 March 2026
Site notice end
6 April 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14696066
Documents
14
Constraints
1

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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