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Land Between Stanford Rivers Road and Brentwood Road, Ongar, Essex

EPF/1320/26Non-Material Amendment - Section 96 TCPAApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 28 July 2026

Council decision: Approve

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

Proposal

Non-Material Amendment to EPF/1356/24 (Residential development of 36 dwellings including affordable housing, access from Stanford Rivers Road, associated estate roads, parking, open space and enhanced landscaping).

Received
6 July 2026
Ward
Ongar
  1. Received6 Jul
  2. Validated6 Jul
  3. Consult.28 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 Jul

Decided in 22 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land Between Stanford Rivers Road and Brentwood Road, Ongar, Essex. Epping Forest has handled 195 applications of this type. This one was decided in 22 days, 5 weeks quicker than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in the Chipping Ongar conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 79 applications across Ongar.

63% of amendment 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

Application type
Non-Material Amendment - Section 96 TCPA
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
36
Parish
Ongar

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 July 2026
Consultation expiry
28 July 2026
Consultation end
28 July 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Sukhvinder Dhadwar

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Chipping Ongar
  • 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, listed buildings, green belt, 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.

Source: Epping Forest

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