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168 Upshire Road Waltham Abbey EN9 3PS

EPF/1678/19Full planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 24 February 2020

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of x2 no. new buildings, one containing flats for 7 supported living residential units, staff office for carers and social and healthcare professionals, day room and gardens to front and rear. The second building is for Housing Association accommodation and contains 8 flats. There are 7 new parking spaces & a new access off Upshire Road.

Received
5 July 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Waltham Abbey South and Rural
  1. Received5 Jul
  2. Validated25 Nov
  3. Consult.1 Jan
  4. Target24 Feb
  5. Decided24 Feb

Decided in 91 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 168 Upshire Road Waltham Abbey EN9 3PS. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 234 days, 25 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 103 applications across Waltham Abbey South and Rural. We hold 2,176 applications in total for the EN9 postcode area.

70% of full 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 3PS
Application type
Full planning permission
Development type
C3 - Dwellings
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 November 2019
Consultation expiry
1 January 2020
Consultation start
10 December 2019
Consultation end
1 January 2020
Last date for comments
7 January 2020
Target decision date
24 February 2020
Committee meeting
24 February 2020
Application expires
24 February 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Documents
24

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Epping ForestNext to the site
  • 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

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© 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.

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