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Land East of Sheering Lower Road, Sheering Lower Road, Lower Sheering, CM21 9LQ

EPF/0450/24Outline planning permission: Some matters reservedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 23 October 2024

Council decision: Approved with Conditions (Subject to s106 Legal Agreement)Planning committee

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

Proposal

Outline planning application with all matters reserved except for access for the erection of 9 dwellings and associated parking and landscaping (Allocated Site - Ref: LSHR.R1)

Received
4 March 2024
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Rural East
  1. Received4 Mar
  2. Validated5 Mar
  3. Consult.1 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Oct

Decided in 232 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a new dwelling at Land East of Sheering Lower Road, Sheering Lower Road, Lower Sheering, CM21 9LQ. Epping Forest has handled 747 applications of this type. This one was decided in 233 days, 25 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 163 applications across Rural East. We hold 1,436 applications in total for the CM21 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
CM21 9LQ
Application type
Outline planning permission: Some matters reserved
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sheering

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 March 2024
Consultation expiry
1 May 2024
Consultation end
1 May 2024
Committee meeting
24 July 2024

Additional information

Documents
41

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 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 (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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    13 Oct

    Approval of Details Reserved by Conditions 4 Tree Protection Plan/Arboricultural Method Statement, 5…

    PendingDischarge of conditionsEPF/1934/26
  2. 2025
    22 Sep

    Reserved Matters application following outline consent EPF/0450/24

    ApprovedReserved mattersRelatedEPF/1910/25
  3. 2024
    4 Mar

    Outline planning application with all matters reserved except for access for the erection of 9 dwellings and…

    This applicationConditionsOutlineEPF/0450/24

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