Burgess Farm Long Street Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 3TG

EPF/0255/17Full planning permissionApproved

Full

Approved on 13 April 2017

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Demolition of two existing outbuildings and construction of two new outbuildings for uses ancillary to the main dwelling house including a gym, garage and music room, and erection of new garden walls, a garden shed, summer house and associated landscaping.

Received: 27 January 2017
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Epping Forest District Council
Ward: Waltham Abbey High Beach

ReceivedReceived27 Jan
ValidatedValidated30 Jan
Consult.Consultation13 Mar
TargetTarget Date14 Apr
DecidedDecided13 Apr

Decided in 73 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Burgess Farm Long Street Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 3TG. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 3 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in the Upshire conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 17 other applications at this address. We hold 2,176 applications in total for the EN9 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: EN9 3TG
Application type: Full planning permission
Development type: C3 - Dwellings
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated: 30 January 2017
Consultation expiry: 13 March 2017
Consultation start: 16 February 2017
Consultation end: 13 March 2017
Last date for comments: 13 March 2017
Target decision date: 14 April 2017
Committee meeting: 13 April 2017
Application expires: 27 March 2017
Permission expires: 13 April 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period: 74 days

Additional information

Documents: 30

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Conservation area: Upshire
Listed building: Grade II: Barn at Burgess FarmhouseOn this site · +1 more
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 (19)

flood storage 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.

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Associated applications

2017
27 Jan
Demolition of two existing outbuildings and construction of two new outbuildings for uses ancillary to the…
This applicationApprovedFullEPF/0255/17
2017
27 Jan
Grade II listed building application for the demolition of two existing curtilage listed outbuildings and…
ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsideEPF/0256/17

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16 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Epping Forest

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