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The Maltings, Unit 3c, Station Road, Sheering, Harlow, CM21 9JX

EPF/0068/25Full planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 24 March 2025

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Conversion of Cafe (Class E) to Dwelling (Class C3).

Received
13 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rural East
  1. Received13 Jan
  2. Validated23 Jan
  3. Consult.13 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided24 Mar

Decided in 60 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at The Maltings, Unit 3c, Station Road, Sheering, Harlow, CM21 9JX. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in the Lower Sheering conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 163 applications across Rural East. We hold 1,436 applications in total for the CM21 postcode area.

70% of full applications at Epping Forest District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CM21 9JX
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sheering

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 January 2025
Consultation expiry
13 February 2025
Consultation end
13 February 2025

Appeal history

3372526
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 23 December 2025Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Lower Sheering
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Lower Sheering

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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    13 Jan

    Conversion of Cafe (Class E) to Dwelling (Class C3).

    This applicationRefusedFullEPF/0068/25
  2. 2025
    13 Jan

    Grade II Listed Building Consent for conversion of Cafe (Class E) to Dwelling (Class C3).

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsideEPF/0082/25

Source: Epping Forest

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