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CBS Furnishings 10 - 12 Cromwell Road Grays Essex RM17 5HF

24/00338/PAOFFRPrior Apprvl Offices to ResidentialRefused

Refused on 28 May 2024

Council decision: Permission RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application under Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended) Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA for the Change of Use from commercial (Class E) use to provide 2, 1 bedroom dwellinghouses(C3) on the ground floor, and create 2 retail units accessible via the rear of the property.

Received
22 March 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Grays Thurrock
Agent
AS Architectural Design and Planning
  1. Received22 Mar
  2. Validated4 Apr
  3. Consult.8 May
  4. Target30 May
  5. Decided28 May

Decided in 54 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at CBS Furnishings 10 - 12 Cromwell Road Grays Essex RM17 5HF. Thurrock has handled 1,341 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 11 days longer than Thurrock's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Grays Thurrock. We hold 216 applications in total for the RM17 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
RM17 5HF
Application type
Prior Apprvl Offices to Residential
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 April 2024
Consultation expiry
15 May 2024
Consultation end
8 May 2024
Neighbour consultation end
9 May 2024
Target decision date
30 May 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
AS Architectural Design and Planning
Agent address
30 Dalkeith Road Ilford IG11JD United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice end
15 May 2024

Additional information

Documents
9

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 and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

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.

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