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Redevelopment Of Land To The West Of Harlow Playhouse College Gate Harlow Essex

HW/CND/25/00346Discharge ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 10 December 2025

Council decision: Approve Discharge of Planning ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for approval of details reserved by condition 2 (Employment & Skills Plan), condition 6 (Construction Management Plan), condition 8 (Piling Method Statement) & condition 13 (Acoustic Glazing) of planning permission HW/FUL/23/00488 for the redevelopment of land to the west of Harlow Playhouse, including Occasio House, to provide a 2 no. storey detached extension to Harlow Playhouse to provide creative studios and performing arts space, music school and recording studio, cafe, changing rooms and booking office (Sui Generis); and an additional part 6 no. and part 5 no. storey building to provide flexible commercial and community floorspace at ground floor level (Use Class E and Use Class F.1/F.2) with residential flats above (Use Class C); together with landscaping, public realm improvements, improvement works to the Haydens Road subway, re-direction of College Gate and re-location of the taxi rank; and associated access and parking provision.

Received
12 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Town Centre
  1. Received12 Aug
  2. Validated12 Aug
  3. Consult.27 Nov
  4. Target12 Dec
  5. Decided10 Dec

Decided in 120 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Redevelopment Of Land To The West Of Harlow Playhouse College Gate Harlow Essex. Harlow has handled 104 applications of this type. This one was decided in 120 days, 10 weeks longer than Harlow's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 6 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Town Centre.

98% of conditions applications at Harlow District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Discharge Condition
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 August 2025
Consultation expiry
27 November 2025
Consultation start
12 September 2025
Consultation end
27 November 2025
Last date for comments
3 October 2025
Target decision date
12 December 2025
Permission expires
10 December 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
122 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14248844
Documents
30
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: HMO - townwide
  • Brownfield land register: Playhouse Quarter Playhouse SquareRegister site at or near this address
  • 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.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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