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20 Sun Street Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1EE

EPF/0543/17Lawful development: Existing useApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 25 May 2017

Council decision: LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Development for existing use of first and second floors as four self contained flats.

Received
21 February 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Waltham Abbey South West
  1. Received21 Feb
  2. Validated21 Feb
  3. Consult.1 Apr
  4. Target26 May
  5. Decided25 May

Decided in 93 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 20 Sun Street Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1EE. Epping Forest has handled 195 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 5 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in the Waltham Abbey conservation area, with 17 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,176 applications in total for the EN9 postcode area.

63% of amendment 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 1EE
Application type
Lawful development: Existing use
Development type
C3 - Dwellings
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 February 2017
Consultation expiry
1 April 2017
Consultation start
10 March 2017
Consultation end
1 April 2017
Last date for comments
1 April 2017
Target decision date
26 May 2017
Committee meeting
25 May 2017
Application expires
18 April 2017
Permission expires
25 May 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
94 days

Additional information

Documents
8

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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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.

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