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Garages St Thomas's Close Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 3PQ

EPF/3216/16Full Planning ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 24 March 2017

Council decision: Refuse PermissionArea Plans West

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

5 affordable homes with 10 parking spaces

Received
2 December 2016
Decision level
Area Plans West
Ward
Waltham Abbey Paternoster
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated16 Jan
  3. Consult.13 Mar
  4. Target13 Mar
  5. Decided24 Mar

Decided in 67 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Garages St Thomas's Close Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 3PQ. Epping Forest has handled 2,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 112 days, 8 weeks longer than Epping Forest's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. 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 3PQ
Application type
Full Planning Application
Development type
C3 - Dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Waltham Abbey

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 January 2017
Consultation expiry
13 March 2017
Consultation start
16 January 2017
Consultation end
13 March 2017
Last date for comments
13 March 2017
Target decision date
13 March 2017
Application expires
13 March 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Epping ForestPart of the site
  • 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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