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12, Surrywood, London Road, Stanford Rivers, Ongar, CM5 9PH

EPF/1970/25Householder planning permissionApproved
Householder

Approved on 3 December 2025

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Removal of existing attached side garage and its replacement with a side extension and gable roof, construction of two front-facing dormer windows and one rear dormer, addition of new front porch and infill of recessed front entrance.

Received
29 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Theydon Bois with Passingford
  1. Received29 Sep
  2. Validated29 Sep
  3. Consult.22 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Dec

Decided in 65 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a dormer extension at 12, Surrywood, London Road, Stanford Rivers, Ongar, CM5 9PH. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 158 applications across Theydon Bois with Passingford. We hold 343 applications in total for the CM5 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
CM5 9PH
Application type
Householder planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stanford Rivers

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 September 2025
Consultation expiry
22 October 2025
Consultation end
22 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
14

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.

© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    28 Apr

    Variation of Condition 2 Plan numbers of EPF/1970/25

    PendingVariation of conditions (s73)EPF/0837/26
  2. 2025
    29 Sep

    Removal of existing attached side garage and its replacement with a side extension and gable roof…

    This applicationApprovedFullEPF/1970/25

Source: Epping Forest

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