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Land North of Shonks Mill Bridge, Shonks Mill Road, Stapleford Tawney

EPF/1415/24Non-Material Amendment - Section 96 TCPAApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 6 August 2024

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Non-Material Amendment for EPF/2702/22 ( A Hybrid planning application. Full planning application for a Flood Storage Area upstream of the M25 on land to the north of Shonks Mill Bridge, Shonks Mill Road, near Stapleford Tawney, Essex. It will provide protection for flood events up to the 1 in 200 year occurrence for properties downstream of the FSA, predominantly in the London Borough of Redbridge. Outline application for 2 replacement dwellings that need to be built to replace 2 that will be lost as part of the FSA).

Received
10 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Passingford
  1. Received10 Jul
  2. Validated10 Jul
  3. Consult.7 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Aug

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land North of Shonks Mill Bridge, Shonks Mill Road, Stapleford Tawney. Epping Forest has handled 195 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 4 weeks quicker than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in 6 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address.

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
Small
Parish
Stanford Rivers

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 July 2024
Consultation expiry
7 August 2024
Consultation end
7 August 2024

Additional information

Documents
1

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.

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