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Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mill Museum, Beaulieu Drive, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1JY

EPF/2611/23Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation areaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 11 December 2023

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Royal Gunpowder Factory Conservation Area G1 - Group of Willow and Alder - Coppice to ground level. T1 and T2: 2 x Willow - Pollard to 8m.

Received
29 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Waltham Abbey West
  1. Received29 Nov
  2. Validated29 Nov
  3. Consult.25 Dec
  4. Target10 Jan
  5. Decided11 Dec

Decided in 12 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 12 days, 6 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
29 November 2023
Consultation expiry
25 December 2023
Consultation end
25 December 2023
Target decision date
10 January 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
4

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 (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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    4 Dec

    Royal Gunpowder Factory Conservation Area T1: Sycamore - Crown reduce by up to 8m.

    ApprovedTreesFiled alongsideEPF/2664/23
  2. 2023
    29 Nov

    Royal Gunpowder Factory Conservation Area G1 - Group of Willow and Alder - Coppice to ground level. T1 and…

    This applicationApprovedTreesEPF/2611/23

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