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Land off Arlingham Mews Sun Street Waltham Abbey EN9 1ED

EPF/1213/21Full planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 19 April 2022

Council decision: RefusePlanning committee

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

Proposal

Change of Use of Ground Floor Retail Units (A1) to 1 x Studio and 2 x 1 bed unit (C3)

Received
29 April 2021
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Waltham Abbey West
  1. Received29 Apr
  2. Validated29 Apr
  3. Consult.16 Jun
  4. Target24 Jun
  5. Decided19 Apr

Decided in 355 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Land off Arlingham Mews Sun Street Waltham Abbey EN9 1ED. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 355 days, 43 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in the Waltham Abbey conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Waltham Abbey West. We hold 2,176 applications in total for the EN9 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).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode
EN9 1ED
Application type
Full planning permission
Development type
C3 - Dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 April 2021
Consultation expiry
16 June 2021
Consultation start
25 May 2021
Consultation end
16 June 2021
Last date for comments
16 June 2021
Target decision date
24 June 2021
Committee meeting
13 April 2022
Application expires
24 June 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal history

3302547
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 2 October 2023Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
26

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 (19)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2022
    30 Jun

    Two extensions to the existing building

    RefusedFull planning permissionEPF/1503/22

Source: Epping Forest

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