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Bansons Yard, High Street, Ongar, CM5 9AA

EPF/0948/23Full planning permissionWithdrawn
Full

Withdrawn on 19 July 2023

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

Proposal

Demolish the existing garage to make way for the building of three new terraced town houses. The town house design is over three storeys and are in keeping with the local conservation area as-built style.

Received
25 April 2023
Ward
Ongar
  1. Received25 Apr
  2. Validated25 Apr
  3. Consult.30 May
  4. Target20 Jun
  5. Decided19 Jul

Decided in 85 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at Bansons Yard, High Street, Ongar, CM5 9AA. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 85 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Chipping Ongar conservation area, with 5 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.

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
CM5 9AA
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ongar

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 April 2023
Consultation expiry
30 May 2023
Consultation end
30 May 2023
Target decision date
20 June 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Chipping Ongar
  • Listed building: Grade II: Outbuilding to Rear of Little BensonsOn or next to this site
  • Brownfield land register: Central House High Street Ongar Essex CM5 9AARegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (19)

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 and heritage coasts.

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

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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    25 Apr

    Demolish the existing garage to make way for the building of three new terraced town houses. The town house…

    This applicationWithdrawnFullEPF/0948/23
  2. 2023
    25 Apr

    Demolish the existing garage to make way for the building of three new terraced town houses. The town house…

    WithdrawnDemolition in a conservation areaFiled alongsideEPF/0952/23

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