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High Laver House, Harlow Road, High Laver, Ongar, CM5 0DR

EPF/0196/24Householder planning permissionRefused
Householder

Refused on 21 March 2024

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Erection of new Road Entrance Gates

Received
30 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Moreton and Fyfield
  1. Received30 Jan
  2. Validated30 Jan
  3. Consult.23 Feb
  4. Target26 Mar
  5. Decided21 Mar

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at High Laver House, Harlow Road, High Laver, Ongar, CM5 0DR. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 343 applications in total for the CM5 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
CM5 0DR
Application type
Householder planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Moreton, Bobbingworth and the Lavers

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 January 2024
Consultation expiry
23 February 2024
Consultation end
23 February 2024
Target decision date
26 March 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Listed building: Grade II: SawyersOn or next to this site
  • Green belt: Epping Forest
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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: Epping Forest

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