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Waltham Abbey Library, 37 Sun Street, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1EL

EPF/2252/22County ConsultationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 13 October 2022

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

CC/EPF/86/22 - Installation of new heating plant (air source heat pumps) including the insertion of vent terminals

Received
29 September 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Waltham Abbey West
  1. Received29 Sep
  2. Validated29 Sep
  3. Consult.24 Oct
  4. Target20 Oct
  5. Decided13 Oct

Decided in 14 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Waltham Abbey Library, 37 Sun Street, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1EL. Epping Forest has handled 747 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 6 weeks quicker than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in the Waltham Abbey conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

80% of outline 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 1EL
Application type
County Consultation
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 September 2022
Consultation expiry
24 October 2022
Consultation end
24 October 2022
Target decision date
20 October 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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.

Source: Epping Forest

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