Springfields, Church Road, Loughton, IG10 4AJ

EPF/1736/24Prior approval Part 3 Class Q: Agricultural buildings to dwellinghousesApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 October 2024

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior approval application to convert the barn on the site into a dwellinghouse

Received: 26 August 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Epping Forest District Council
Ward: Waltham Abbey South and Rural

ReceivedReceived26 Aug
ValidatedValidated26 Aug
Consult.Consultation20 Sep
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided18 Oct

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a new dwelling at Springfields, Church Road, Loughton, IG10 4AJ. Epping Forest has handled 747 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker 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 509 applications in total for the IG10 postcode area.

80% of outline 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: IG10 4AJ
Application type: Prior approval Part 3 Class Q: Agricultural buildings to dwellinghouses
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated: 26 August 2024
Consultation expiry: 20 September 2024
Consultation end: 20 September 2024

Additional information

Documents: 24

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.

Source: Epping Forest

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