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Wych Elm House Wych Elm Harlow Essex CM20 1QR

HW/ADPLA/25/00114App of Det Pursuant to Legal AgreementRefused

Refused on 12 June 2025

Council decision: Refused Planning PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Deed of Variation to the agreed Section 106 Unilateral Undertaking agreed as part of LPA Ref: HW/FUL/19/00241 Wych Elm House to remove the requirement for financial contributions to 'Primary Schools' and 'Libraries', as set out at Schedule 1 and Schedule 3 of the S106 Agreement, respectively.

Received
14 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Agent
Hybrid Planning & Development Limited
  1. Received14 Mar
  2. Validated14 Mar
  3. Consult.30 May
  4. Target18 Apr
  5. Decided12 Jun

Decided in 90 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Wych Elm House Wych Elm Harlow Essex CM20 1QR. Harlow has handled 847 applications of this type. This one was decided in 90 days, 6 weeks longer than Harlow's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 252 applications in total for the CM20 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
CM20 1QR
Application type
App of Det Pursuant to Legal Agreement
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 March 2025
Consultation expiry
30 May 2025
Consultation start
9 May 2025
Consultation end
30 May 2025
Last date for comments
30 May 2025
Target decision date
18 April 2025
Permission expires
12 June 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Hybrid Planning & Development Limited
Agent address
The Old Vyner Street Gallery 23 Vyner Street London E2 9DG

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Article 4 direction: HMO - townwide+1 more
  • Brownfield land register: Wych Elm Multi-Storey Car Park and Commercial UnitsRegister site at or near this address · +3 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, green belt, 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

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