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Pets at Home Unit 1B Highbridge Retail Park Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1BY

EPF/0421/15Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 24 April 2015

Council decision: LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application for a Certificate of Lawful Development for the partial use of the site for pet care and treatment facility as an ancillary use to the existing A1 (retail) pet store.

Received
23 February 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Waltham Abbey South West
  1. Received23 Feb
  2. Validated18 Mar
  3. Consult.9 Apr
  4. Target9 Apr
  5. Decided24 Apr

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Pets at Home Unit 1B Highbridge Retail Park Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1BY. Epping Forest has handled 747 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,176 applications in total for the EN9 postcode area.

80% of outline 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 1BY
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed Use
Development type
A1 - Retail
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 March 2015
Consultation expiry
9 April 2015
Consultation start
18 March 2015
Consultation end
9 April 2015
Last date for comments
9 April 2015
Target decision date
9 April 2015
Application expires
23 April 2015
Permission expires
24 April 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
36 days

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 3: High 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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