Development Land, Oak Hill Road, Stapleford Abbotts, RM4 1JL

EPF/2330/25Approval of details reserved by a conditionRefused

Discharge / amendments

Refused on 24 December 2025

Council decision: Refuse

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

Proposal

Approval of Details Reserved by Condition - Informative (No. 46) for BNG of EPF/1769/24 (The erection of 42no residential dwellings together with highway, car parking and associated works).

Received: 17 November 2025
Council: Epping Forest District Council
Ward: Theydon Bois with Passingford

ReceivedReceived17 Nov
ValidatedValidated17 Nov
Consult.Consultation1 Jan
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided24 Dec

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Development Land, Oak Hill Road, Stapleford Abbotts, RM4 1JL. Epping Forest has handled 878 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 3 weeks quicker than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There have been 6 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 158 applications across Theydon Bois with Passingford. We hold 272 applications in total for the RM4 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: RM4 1JL
Application type: Approval of details reserved by a condition
Scale / size: Large
Number of dwellings: 42
Parish: Stapleford Abbotts

Planning application dates

Date validated: 17 November 2025
Consultation expiry: 1 January 2026
Consultation end: 1 January 2026

Additional information

Documents: 7

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (22)

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, 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.

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.

Planning history at this site

6 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Epping Forest

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