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Highbridge Retail Park, Highbridge Street, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1BY

EPF/1524/24Approval of details reserved by a conditionRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 21 August 2024

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Discharge of Condition 4 Drainage Assessment of EPF/2051/23 (Application for the erection of a substation, sixteen ultra-rapid electric vehicle charge points and associated electrical equipment within the southern car park of Highbridge retail park.).

Received
24 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Waltham Abbey West
  1. Received24 Jul
  2. Validated24 Jul
  3. Consult.21 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Aug

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Highbridge Retail Park, Highbridge Street, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1BY. Epping Forest has handled 878 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Waltham Abbey West. We hold 2,176 applications in total for the EN9 postcode area.

86% of conditions 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 1BY
Application type
Approval of details reserved by a condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 July 2024
Consultation expiry
21 August 2024
Consultation end
21 August 2024

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 3: High 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.

© 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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