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Land at Nickerlands, Berwick Lane, Stanford Rivers, Ongar, CM5 9PX

EPF/0342/26Approval of details reserved by a conditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 11 May 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Approval of Biodiversity Gain Plan Reserved by Schedule 7A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended), following approved HMMP under EPF/2196/25, along with Condition 7 (Archaeology), Condition 9 (Great Crested Newts) and Condition 19 (Biodiversity Enhancement Strategy (BES)) of EPF/1546/24 (Proposed Installation, operation and decommissioning of renewable energy generating station comprising ground-mounted photovoltaic solar arrays together with transformer/inverter stations, site accesses, internal access tracks, security measures, access gates, other ancillary infrastructure and landscaping and biodiversity enhancements).

Received
17 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Theydon Bois with Passingford
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated17 Feb
  3. Consult.12 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 May

Decided in 83 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Land at Nickerlands, Berwick Lane, Stanford Rivers, Ongar, CM5 9PX. Epping Forest has handled 878 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 4 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 158 applications across Theydon Bois with Passingford. 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 9PX
Application type
Approval of details reserved by a condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stanford Rivers

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 February 2026
Consultation expiry
12 March 2026
Consultation end
12 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    17 Feb

    Approval of Biodiversity Gain Plan Reserved by Schedule 7A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as…

    This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditionsEPF/0342/26
  2. 2025
    27 Oct

    Application for approval of details reserved by condition 6 (BNG - HMMP), 12 (Farmland Bird Mitigation…

    Split (Details Partially Approved)Discharge of conditionsPart ofEPF/2196/25

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