Peartree Cottage, Willingale Road, Fyfield, Ongar, CM5 0SD

EPF/1098/26Lawful Development Certificate: ProposedApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 4 August 2026

Council decision: Lawful

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Development for proposed single storey side extension.

Received: 4 June 2026
Council: Epping Forest District Council
Ward: Rural East

ReceivedReceived4 Jun
ValidatedValidated8 Jun
Consult.Consultation29 Jun
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided4 Aug

Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey side extension at Peartree Cottage, Willingale Road, Fyfield, Ongar, CM5 0SD. Epping Forest has handled 747 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 5 days longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 163 applications across Rural East. 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 0SD
Application type: Lawful Development Certificate: Proposed
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Fyfield

Planning application dates

Date validated: 8 June 2026
Consultation expiry: 29 June 2026
Consultation end: 29 June 2026

Additional information

Documents: 3

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Listed building: Grade II: Parsonage HouseOn or next to this site
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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Epping Forest

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