Adjacent To Monkswood Nursery Pick Hill Demolition Yard, Pick Hill, Waltham Abbey, EN9 3LE

EPF/0850/25Lawful Development Certificate: ExistingRefused

Lawful development certificate

Refused on 23 June 2025

Council decision: Not LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawful development for a B8 Existing Use of storage and distribution yard of scaffolding equipment and building materials in continuous use on site in excess of 10 years.

Received: 16 April 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Epping Forest District Council
Ward: Waltham Abbey North

ReceivedReceived16 Apr
ValidatedValidated16 Apr
Consult.Consultation19 May
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided23 Jun

Decided in 68 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Adjacent To Monkswood Nursery Pick Hill Demolition Yard, Pick Hill, Waltham Abbey, EN9 3LE. Epping Forest has handled 195 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Waltham Abbey North. 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 3LE
Application type: Lawful Development Certificate: Existing
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated: 16 April 2025
Consultation expiry: 19 May 2025
Consultation end: 19 May 2025

Additional information

Documents: 11

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 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
Green belt: Epping Forest

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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