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North Weald Airfield, Merlin Way, North Weald Bassett, CM16 6HR

EPF/0787/24Approval of details reserved by a conditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 22 April 2024

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Approval of Details Reserved by Condition 3 Surface Water Drainage of EPF/0297/24 (New Control Tower Building (CTB) and Rescue and Fire Fighting Service Building (RFFS) including parking shelter for operational vehicles, access to the perimeter road, car parking and associated works).

Received
17 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North Weald Bassett
  1. Received17 Apr
  2. Validated17 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Apr

Decided in 5 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at North Weald Airfield, Merlin Way, North Weald Bassett, CM16 6HR. Epping Forest has handled 878 applications of this type. This one was decided in 5 days, 7 weeks quicker than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 56 applications across North Weald Bassett. We hold 642 applications in total for the CM16 postcode area.

86% of conditions 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
CM16 6HR
Application type
Approval of details reserved by a condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
North Weald Bassett

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 April 2024

Additional information

Documents
9

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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