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244, Lambwood Heights, Lambourne Road, Chigwell, IG7 6HX

EPF/2565/25Full planning permissionAwaiting decision
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Proposal

Proposed Change of Use of 1 No. Lounge / Diner and Sluice room into 2 No. additional care home bedrooms to create a total of 75 beds within the existing care home.

Received
19 December 2025
Ward
Chigwell with Lambourne
  1. Received19 Dec
  2. Validated23 Feb
  3. Consult.17 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 244, Lambwood Heights, Lambourne Road, Chigwell, IG7 6HX. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 19 December 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 119 applications across Chigwell with Lambourne. We hold 580 applications in total for the IG7 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
IG7 6HX
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chigwell

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 February 2026
Consultation expiry
17 March 2026
Consultation end
17 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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