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Northfield Nursery, Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey, E4 7RG

EPF/0314/24Full planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 30 April 2024

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

The proposal seeks retrospective full planning permission for the change of use from a horticultural nursery (Sui Generis Use Class) to a garden centre (Use Class E). It has been operating as a Garden Centre since the 1970’s.

Received
16 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Waltham Abbey South and Rural
  1. Received16 Feb
  2. Validated5 Mar
  3. Consult.29 Mar
  4. Target30 Apr
  5. Decided30 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Northfield Nursery, Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey, E4 7RG. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 103 applications across Waltham Abbey South and Rural. We hold 1,127 applications in total for the E4 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
E4 7RG
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 March 2024
Consultation expiry
29 March 2024
Consultation end
29 March 2024
Target decision date
30 April 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal history

3349818
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: HearingDecision: 12 December 2024Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal
Green Belt

Additional information

Documents
26

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
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.

© 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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