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Roding Sports Centre, Old Loughtonians Hockey Club, Luxborough Lane, Chigwell, IG7 5AB

EPF/1955/25Approval of details reserved by a conditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 3 October 2025

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Approval of Details Reserved by Conditions 3 Cycle Parking, 4 Floodlighting and 5 Hard and Soft Landscaping of EPF/0687/24 (Construction of a padel tennis facility).

Received
26 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chigwell with Lambourne
  1. Received26 Sep
  2. Validated26 Sep
  3. Consult.21 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Oct

Decided in 7 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Roding Sports Centre, Old Loughtonians Hockey Club, Luxborough Lane, Chigwell, IG7 5AB. Epping Forest has handled 878 applications of this type. This one was decided in 7 days, 7 weeks quicker than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 119 applications across Chigwell with Lambourne. We hold 580 applications in total for the IG7 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
IG7 5AB
Application type
Approval of details reserved by a condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chigwell

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 September 2025
Consultation expiry
21 October 2025
Consultation end
21 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Green belt: Epping Forest

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.

Source: Epping Forest

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