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123, High Street, Ongar, CM5 9JA

EPF/0308/25Full planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 4 July 2025

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from shop to residential unit with internal alterations.

Received
12 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ongar
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated19 Mar
  3. Consult.24 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Jul

Decided in 107 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 123, High Street, Ongar, CM5 9JA. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 142 days, 12 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in the Chipping Ongar conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 79 applications across Ongar. 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 9JA
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ongar

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 March 2025
Consultation expiry
24 June 2025
Consultation end
24 June 2025

Additional information

Documents
24

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Chipping Ongar
  • Listed building: Grade II: 129, High StreetOn or next to this site · +2 more
  • 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, green belt, 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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