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Disused Chicken Sheds and surrounding land at the rear of Paynes Farmhouse, Paynes Lane, Nazeing, EN9 2EU

EPF/2816/23Full planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 14 May 2024

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Conversion of two derelict, former and Chicken Sheds into a pair of 2No., Four-bedroom, Semi-Detached Houses with garages, cycle shed, refuse storage and outdoor amenity area on a one-acre site.

Received
27 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Roydon and Lower Nazeing
  1. Received27 Dec
  2. Validated6 Mar
  3. Consult.14 May
  4. Target1 May
  5. Decided14 May

Decided in 69 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Disused Chicken Sheds and surrounding land at the rear of Paynes Farmhouse, Paynes Lane, Nazeing, EN9 2EU. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 139 days, 12 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 143 applications across Roydon and Lower Nazeing. We hold 2,176 applications in total for the EN9 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
EN9 2EU
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Nazeing

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 March 2024
Consultation expiry
14 May 2024
Consultation end
14 May 2024
Target decision date
1 May 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal history

3354909
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 18 June 2025Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Refusal
Green Belt

Additional information

Documents
20

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 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • 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 (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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