Hobbs View, Moreton Road, Ongar, CM5 0LX
Approved on 14 May 2026
Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)9 conditions
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Proposal
Replacement dwelling and garaging within existing garden curtilage - minor house redesign and repositioning within curtilage following previously consented scheme (Ref: PL/EPF/1693/21).
- Received
- 27 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Rural East
- ReceivedReceived27 Oct
- ValidatedValidated27 Oct
- Consult.Consultation29 Dec
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided14 May
Decided in 199 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Hobbs View, Moreton Road, Ongar, CM5 0LX. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 199 days, 20 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 163 applications across Rural East. 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 0LX
- Application type
- Full planning permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Moreton, Bobbingworth and the Lavers
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 29 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 29 December 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 39
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Epping Forest
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