North Wilmore Barn, Workers Road, High Laver, Ongar, CM5 0DZ

EPF/0307/26Approval of details reserved by a conditionRefused

Discharge / amendments

Refused on 11 March 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Approval of Details Reserved by Condition 4 Details of windows and doors of EPF/2059/19 (Application for Grade II Listed Building consent for proposed extension to the existing building with a new basement, entrance lobby and mid-storey extensions to the South and North elevations, together with a new separate pool house).

Received: 13 February 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Epping Forest District Council
Ward: Rural East

ReceivedReceived13 Feb
ValidatedValidated13 Feb
Consult.Consultation10 Mar
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided11 Mar

Decided in 26 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at North Wilmore Barn, Workers Road, High Laver, Ongar, CM5 0DZ. Epping Forest has handled 878 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 4 weeks quicker than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There have been 8 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 163 applications across Rural East. We hold 343 applications in total for the CM5 postcode area.

86% of conditions 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 0DZ
Application type: Approval of details reserved by a condition
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Moreton, Bobbingworth and the Lavers

Planning application dates

Date validated: 13 February 2026
Consultation expiry: 10 March 2026
Consultation end: 10 March 2026

Additional information

Documents: 7

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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.

Planning history at this site

8 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Epping Forest

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