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Units 14 and 15 Arlingham Mews Sun Street Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1ED

EPF/1216/16Full planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 21 July 2016

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Change of use from A1 (shop) to D1 (education and training centre)

Received
4 May 2016
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Waltham Abbey South West
  1. Received4 May
  2. Validated4 May
  3. Consult.25 Jul
  4. Target25 Jul
  5. Decided21 Jul

Decided in 78 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Units 14 and 15 Arlingham Mews Sun Street Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1ED. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 78 days, 3 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. 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).

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Application details

Postcode
EN9 1ED
Application type
Full planning permission
Development type
D1 - Places of worship, church hall; Clinics, health centres, crèches, day nurseries, consulting rms
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 May 2016
Consultation expiry
25 July 2016
Consultation start
21 May 2016
Consultation end
25 July 2016
Last date for comments
6 July 2016
Target decision date
25 July 2016
Committee meeting
20 July 2016
Application expires
29 June 2016
Permission expires
21 July 2019

Planning decision

Statutory period
82 days

Additional information

Documents
10

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.

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