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Essex House, 118 High Street, Ongar, CM5 9EB

EPF/0816/24Prior approval Part 3 Class MA: Commercial, Business and Service uses to DwellinghousesApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 14 June 2024

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior approval for Change of use from Class E business use to 6 no. dwellings (C3).

Received
19 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ongar
  1. Received19 Apr
  2. Validated19 Apr
  3. Consult.14 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided14 Jun

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Essex House, 118 High Street, Ongar, CM5 9EB. Epping Forest has handled 747 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Chipping Ongar conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 79 applications across Ongar. We hold 343 applications in total for the CM5 postcode area.

80% of outline 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
CM5 9EB
Application type
Prior approval Part 3 Class MA: Commercial, Business and Service uses to Dwellinghouses
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ongar

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 April 2024
Consultation expiry
14 May 2024
Consultation end
14 May 2024

Additional information

Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2024
    26 Jan

    Prior approval change of use from Commercial Class E to 6 dwellings.

    RefusedOutlineEPF/0174/24

Source: Epping Forest

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