53, Lower Queens Road, Buckhurst Hill, IG9 6DN

EPF/0584/24Householder planning permissionApproved

Householder

Approved on 14 May 2024

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Ground floor rear extension

Received: 20 March 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Epping Forest District Council
Ward: Buckhurst Hill East and Whitebridge

ReceivedReceived20 Mar
ValidatedValidated20 Mar
Consult.Consultation18 Apr
TargetTarget Date15 May
DecidedDecided14 May

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a rear extension at 53, Lower Queens Road, Buckhurst Hill, IG9 6DN. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Buckhurst Hill East and Whitebridge. We hold 221 applications in total for the IG9 postcode area.

70% of full 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: IG9 6DN
Application type: Householder planning permission
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Buckhurst Hill

Planning application dates

Date validated: 20 March 2024
Consultation expiry: 18 April 2024
Consultation end: 18 April 2024
Target decision date: 15 May 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 13

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.

Source: Epping Forest

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