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McDonald's Restaurant Highbridge Retail Park Highbridge Street Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1BY

EPF/2791/16Advertisement Consent ApplicationApproved
Advertisement consent

Approved on 19 December 2016

Council decision: Grant Permission (With Conditions)Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of a new freestanding 6.5m totem sign.

Received
24 October 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Waltham Abbey South West
  1. Received24 Oct
  2. Validated7 Nov
  3. Consult.29 Nov
  4. Target13 Dec
  5. Decided19 Dec

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at McDonald's Restaurant Highbridge Retail Park Highbridge Street Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1BY. Epping Forest has handled 73 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 2,176 applications in total for the EN9 postcode area.

76% of advertising 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 1BY
Application type
Advertisement Consent Application
Development type
A3 - Restaurants, snack bars, cafes
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 November 2016
Consultation expiry
29 November 2016
Consultation start
7 November 2016
Consultation end
29 November 2016
Last date for comments
29 November 2016
Target decision date
13 December 2016
Application expires
20 December 2016
Permission expires
19 December 2019

Planning decision

Statutory period
43 days

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Green belt: Epping ForestPart of the site

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

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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.

© 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.

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