HM Coastguards Ness Road Shoeburyness Southend-on-sea Essex SS3 9DF Data via plota.co.uk

26/01060/FUL - Full Application Registered

Proposal

Replace existing fence, posts and gates with higher security fence and gates Data via plota.co.uk

View original council record ↗Last checked

Application progress

✓
Received
7 Aug 2026
✓
Validated
12 Aug 2026
Decision
Expected by 14 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 58.

Site constraints 9

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Tilbury to Southend 6 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site; the route and its margin are protected.
Ramsar wetland 19 m away: Benfleet and Southend Marshes
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Agricultural land, grade 3a
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. A site survey can differ.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
SSSI 18 m away: Benfleet and Southend Marshes SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Habitat network: Sssi
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Nature improvement area: Greater Thames Marshes; Flood defence 9 m away (wall, designed for a 1 in 1000 year flood); Priority habitat 20 m away: Coastal vegetated shingle.
Not affected
Not green belt · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Southend
Application type
Full Application
Postcode
SS3 9DF
Received
7 Aug 2026
Validated
12 Aug 2026
Ward
West Shoebury
Case officer
Show
Target decision
14 Oct 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
McAndrew Martin

Decision outlook

Day 58, past the statutory target. 94% of extensions in Southend are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 11 Nov 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 8 Oct 2026.

Day 582 days past the 56-day target
74%decided within 8 weeks
86%approved
534decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by Southend in the last twelve months, from validation. Southend decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

2 neighbours consulted · Last counted 8 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
7 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No
Southend
Planning Authority Score
3.8/10
Below average
#209 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Southend ranks #155 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (88%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Southend decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
80%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #261 of 296
88%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #224 of 296
64%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #155 of 296
43%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #173 of 296
62%
Minor dwellings approved
109 decided (1-9 homes)
78%
Major dwellings approved
9 decided (10+ homes)
56%
Change of use approved
82 decided
904
Total decisions
177 refused in the year to March 2026