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47, Hainault Road, Chigwell, IG7 5DQ

EPF/0677/23Full planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 25 May 2023

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Replacement of existing dwelling with a house that will appear as two storey in scale, with a second floor of accommodation within the roof, plus a basement to provide a 6 bedroom house (Revised scheme to EPF/2122/22).

Received
24 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Grange Hill
  1. Received24 Mar
  2. Validated3 Apr
  3. Consult.16 May
  4. Target29 May
  5. Decided25 May

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 47, Hainault Road, Chigwell, IG7 5DQ. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across Grange Hill. We hold 580 applications in total for the IG7 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
IG7 5DQ
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chigwell

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 April 2023
Consultation expiry
16 May 2023
Consultation end
16 May 2023
Target decision date
29 May 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
18

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.

Source: Epping Forest

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