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Bakers Lane Car Park, Bakers Lane, Epping, CM16 5BD

EPF/2186/25Approval of details reserved by a conditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 27 November 2025

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Approval of Details Reserved by Condition 28 Contaminated Land of EPF/2924/20 (Full application for the redevelopment of existing surface level car park to provide a leisure centre to include swimming pool, gymnasium, sports hall, squash courts and studio (mixed Class E (d) and F.2 (d)) together with disabled parking provision, new vehicular and pedestrian access, all hard and soft landscaping, and associated works).

Received
24 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Epping West and Rural
  1. Received24 Oct
  2. Validated24 Oct
  3. Consult.14 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Nov

Decided in 34 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Bakers Lane Car Park, Bakers Lane, Epping, CM16 5BD. Epping Forest has handled 878 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 3 weeks quicker than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 117 applications across Epping West and Rural. We hold 642 applications in total for the CM16 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
CM16 5BD
Application type
Approval of details reserved by a condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Epping

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 October 2025
Consultation expiry
14 November 2025
Consultation end
14 November 2025

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Brownfield land register: Car Park Bakers Lane Epping CM16 5Register site at or near this address · +1 more
  • 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, green belt, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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