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Bickerton Court, Sheering Lower Road, Sheering, Harlow, CM21 9FH

EPF/0540/25Consent under Tree Preservation OrdersApproved

Approved on 28 May 2025

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

TPO/EPF/06/22 (Ref: T1, T4, T5 & T6) T1: Ash - Crown reduce by up to 2m, as specified. G2: 1 x Silver Maple and 2 x Norway Maple - Crown reduce by up to 2m, as specified. NB: The permitted specification of works is detailed in the conditions below.

Received
14 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rural East
  1. Received14 Mar
  2. Validated14 Mar
  3. Consult.14 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 May

Decided in 75 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Bickerton Court, Sheering Lower Road, Sheering, Harlow, CM21 9FH. Epping Forest has handled 498 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 3 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in the Lower Sheering conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 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.

95% of trees applications at Epping Forest District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode
CM21 9FH
Application type
Consent under Tree Preservation Orders
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sheering

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 March 2025
Consultation expiry
14 April 2025
Consultation end
14 April 2025

Additional information

Documents
4

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 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Lower Sheering
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Lower Sheering

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, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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. 2025
    14 Mar

    TPO/EPF/06/22 (Ref: T1, T4, T5 & T6) T1: Ash - Crown reduce by up to 2m, as specified. G2: 1 x Silver Maple…

    This applicationApprovedTreesEPF/0540/25
  2. 2025
    14 Mar

    Lower Sheering Conservation Area T1: Silver maple - Crown reduce by up to 2m.

    ApprovedTreesFiled alongsideEPF/0554/25

Source: Epping Forest

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