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Beechside Nursery, Mott Street, Waltham Abbey, E4 7RW

EPF/2317/25Lawful Development Certificate: ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 23 January 2026

Council decision: Not LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Development for existing use in excess of 10 year for 1. Landscape Maintenance contract business with corporate flower displays including plant storage (B8) 2. Small shop area within glasshouse for sale of plants to retail customers to the nursery (plants purchased for re-sale) (E) 3. Storage of equipment for Landscape Business (B8) 4. Barn to north of greenhouse largely used for storage of equipment used for contract business with exception of small area used as a Barber Shop (B8 and E).

Received
17 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Waltham Abbey South and Rural
  1. Received17 Nov
  2. Validated14 Nov
  3. Consult.9 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Jan

Decided in 70 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Beechside Nursery, Mott Street, Waltham Abbey, E4 7RW. Epping Forest has handled 195 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 103 applications across Waltham Abbey South and Rural. We hold 1,127 applications in total for the E4 postcode area.

63% of amendment 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
E4 7RW
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate: Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 November 2025
Consultation expiry
9 December 2025
Consultation end
9 December 2025

Additional information

Documents
6

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.

Source: Epping Forest

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