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Units 12, 14, and 15 Arlingham Mews, Sun Street, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1ED

EPF/1984/22Full planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 20 April 2023

Council decision: Approved with Conditions (Subject to s106 Legal Agreement)Planning committee

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

Proposal

Change of use of three vacant retail units, to two one bed flats.

Received
26 August 2022
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Waltham Abbey West
  1. Received26 Aug
  2. Validated26 Aug
  3. Consult.30 Sep
  4. Target24 Apr
  5. Decided20 Apr

Decided in 237 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Units 12,14, and 15 Arlingham Mews, Sun Street, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1ED. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 237 days, 26 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in the Waltham Abbey conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.

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 1ED
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 August 2022
Consultation expiry
30 September 2022
Consultation end
30 September 2022
Target decision date
24 April 2023
Committee meeting
18 January 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
241 days

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Waltham Abbey
  • Listed building: Grade II: 38, Sun StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Waltham Abbey
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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. 2023
    16 Mar

    Application for approval of details reserved by conditions 3 Types and colours of external finishes, 4…

    SplitDischarge of conditionsEPF/0603/23
  2. 2022
    26 Aug

    Change of use of three vacant retail units, to two one bed flats.

    This applicationConditionsFullEPF/1984/22

Source: Epping Forest

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