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Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mill Museum, Beaulieu Drive, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1JY

EPF/0080/23Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation areaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 1 February 2023

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Royal Gunpowder Mills Factory Conservation Area 15 x Trees - Schedule of works, as specified.

Received
16 January 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Waltham Abbey West
  1. Received16 Jan
  2. Validated16 Jan
  3. Consult.7 Feb
  4. Target27 Feb
  5. Decided1 Feb

Decided in 16 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mill Museum, Beaulieu Drive, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1JY. Epping Forest has handled 498 applications of this type. This one was decided in 16 days, 6 weeks quicker than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Waltham Abbey West. We hold 2,176 applications in total for the EN9 postcode area.

95% of trees 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
EN9 1JY
Application type
Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 January 2023
Consultation expiry
7 February 2023
Consultation end
7 February 2023
Target decision date
27 February 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (18)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

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