Garden Cottage, Mount Road, Theydon Mount, Epping, CM16 7PP

EPF/1122/24Full planning permissionRefused

Full

Refused on 19 August 2024

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Self-build housing scheme for the redevelopment of brownfield land to form three dwellings (2 X 3 bed and 1 X 2 bed) with home offices.

Received: 29 May 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Epping Forest District Council
Ward: Passingford

ReceivedReceived29 May
ValidatedValidated24 Jun
Consult.Consultation22 Jul
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided19 Aug

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Garden Cottage, Mount Road, Theydon Mount, Epping, CM16 7PP. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 82 days, 4 weeks 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. We hold 642 applications in total for the CM16 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: CM16 7PP
Application type: Full planning permission
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Theydon Mount

Planning application dates

Date validated: 24 June 2024
Consultation expiry: 22 July 2024
Consultation end: 22 July 2024

Additional information

Documents: 32

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.

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.

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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.

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Source: Epping Forest

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