Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mill Museum, Beaulieu Drive, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1JY
Approved on 13 December 2024
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Royal Gunpowder Mills Factory Conservation Area Crown Reduce, as specified. T8, T10, T16, T17, T20 & T21: 6 x Ash T3 & T11: Sycamore T4, T6 & T7: 3 x Alder T5: Alder - Crown reduce by 35%. Re-coppice: T9: Willow Re-pollard or Pollard: T12, T13, T14 (x4), T15 (x3): Willow T18: Apple G1: Willows adjacent to Gregory Mews. G2: 9 x Willow in centre of car park.
- Received
- 15 November 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Waltham Abbey West
- ReceivedReceived15 Nov
- ValidatedValidated15 Nov
- Consult.Consultation9 Dec
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided13 Dec
Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mill Museum, Beaulieu Drive, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1JY. Epping Forest has handled 498 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker than Epping Forest's typical decision time. The site is in the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications 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.
95% of trees 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 1JY
- Application type
- Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Waltham Abbey
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 November 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 9 December 2024
- Consultation end
- 9 December 2024
Additional information
- Documents
- 4
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
- Conservation area: Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey
- Green belt: Epping Forest
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 (18)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.
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© 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.
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Planning history at this site
5 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20241 Oct
Royal Gunpowder Factory Conservation Area G1: Willow & Alder - Coppice to ground level. T1 & T2: Willow…
ApprovedTreesEPF/1992/24 - 20234 Dec
Royal Gunpowder Factory Conservation Area T1: Sycamore - Crown reduce by up to 8m.
ApprovedTreesEPF/2664/23 - 202329 Nov
Royal Gunpowder Factory Conservation Area G1 - Group of Willow and Alder - Coppice to ground level. T1 and…
ApprovedTreesEPF/2611/23 - 20234 Oct
Royal Gunpowder Mills Factory Conservation Area T1: Sycamore - Reduce to 1.5m. T2: Maple - Crown reduce by up…
ApprovedTreesEPF/2230/23 - 202316 Jan
Royal Gunpowder Mills Factory Conservation Area 15 x Trees - Schedule of works, as specified.
ApprovedTreesEPF/0080/23
Source: Epping Forest
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- Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mill Museum, Beaulieu Drive, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1JYEPF/0080/23 · TreesApproved0.0 mi
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