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Greensted Barn, Greensted Road, Ongar, CM5 9LE

EPF/0910/25Prior approval Part 3 Class Q: Agricultural buildings to dwellinghousesRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 11 August 2025

Council decision: Not LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use of existing agricultural building to dwellinghouses (Class C3 use).

Received
28 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ongar
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated28 Apr
  3. Consult.2 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Aug

Decided in 105 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Greensted Barn, Greensted Road, Ongar, CM5 9LE. Epping Forest has handled 747 applications of this type. This one was decided in 105 days, 7 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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 9LE
Application type
Prior approval Part 3 Class Q: Agricultural buildings to dwellinghouses
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ongar

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 April 2025
Consultation expiry
2 June 2025
Consultation end
2 June 2025

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.

  • Green belt: Epping Forest
  • 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 (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.

© 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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