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Forest House, Vicarage Lane, Chigwell, IG7 6NA

EPF/0976/25Consent under Tree Preservation OrdersApproved

Approved on 8 August 2025

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

TPO/EPF/17/91 (Ref: T31, T32, T36) T1: Holm Oak - Selective reduction of branches overhanging driveway to suitable growth points, as specified. T3: Oak - Selective reduction of branches overhanging driveway to suitable growth points, as specified. T4: Oak - Crown reduce to suitable growth points and shape, as specified. Crown lift by up to 3.5m, as specified. NB: The permitted specification of works is detailed in the conditions below.

Received
7 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Grange Hill
  1. Received7 May
  2. Validated7 May
  3. Consult.2 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Aug

Decided in 93 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Forest House, Vicarage Lane, Chigwell, IG7 6NA. Epping Forest has handled 498 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 5 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across Grange Hill. We hold 580 applications in total for the IG7 postcode area.

95% of trees 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
IG7 6NA
Application type
Consent under Tree Preservation Orders
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chigwell

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 May 2025
Consultation expiry
2 June 2025
Consultation end
2 June 2025

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    7 May

    TPO/EPF/17/91 (Ref: T31, T32, T36) T1: Holm Oak - Selective reduction of branches overhanging driveway to…

    This applicationApprovedTreesEPF/0976/25
  2. 2025
    7 May

    TPO/EPF/17/91 (Ref: T35) T5: Robinia - Fell and replace, as specified. NB: The permitted specification of…

    ApprovedConsent under Tree Preservation OrdersFiled alongsideEPF/0982/25

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