Wantz Farm, Chelmsford Road, High Ongar, Ongar, CM5 9LX

EPF/1471/26Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)Withdrawn

Listed building consent

Withdrawn on 11 November 2026

Council decision: Application Withdrawn

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

Proposal

Grade II listed building consent for removal of telephone cable and replace with fibre broadband line.

Received: 30 July 2026
Council: Epping Forest District Council
Ward: Ongar

ReceivedReceived30 Jul
ValidatedValidated30 Jul
Consult.Consultation21 Aug
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided11 Nov

Decided in 104 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Wantz Farm, Chelmsford Road, High Ongar, Ongar, CM5 9LX. Epping Forest has handled 309 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 104 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 79 applications across Ongar. We hold 343 applications in total for the CM5 postcode area.

66% of heritage 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 9LX
Application type: Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Ongar

Planning application dates

Date validated: 30 July 2026
Consultation expiry: 21 August 2026
Consultation end: 21 August 2026

Planning decision

Case officer: Frederique Caillat

Additional information

Documents: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Source: Epping Forest

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