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Spains Hall, Spains Hall Road, Willingale, Ongar, CM5 0QE

EPF/1281/26Prior approval Part 3 Class R: Agricultural buildings to a flexible commercial useApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 19 August 2026

Council decision: Approve with Conditions4 conditions

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

Proposal

Notification for prior approval under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class R of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for the change of use of an existing agricultural building and land within its curtilage at the Umbrella Building, Spains Hall, to Class E(g)(iii) light industrial use, with no operational development proposed.

Received
29 June 2026
Ward
Rural East
  1. Received29 Jun
  2. Validated29 Jun
  3. Consult.21 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Aug

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Spains Hall, Spains Hall Road, Willingale, Ongar, CM5 0QE. Epping Forest has handled 747 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings 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 0QE
Application type
Prior approval Part 3 Class R: Agricultural buildings to a flexible commercial use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Willingale

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 June 2026
Consultation expiry
21 July 2026
Consultation end
21 July 2026

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
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.

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. 2026
    1 Sep

    Approval of Details Reserved by Condition 4 Regulation 77 of EPF/1281/26

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsEPF/1669/26
  2. 2026
    29 Jun

    Notification for prior approval under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class R of the Town and Country Planning (General…

    This applicationApprovedOutlineEPF/1281/26

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