38 Barn Mead Harlow Essex CM18 6SN
Refused on 18 November 2025
Council decision: Would Not Be Lawful Use/DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Use of outbuilding in the garden of property for providing therapeutic counselling services, limited to 5 hours per week. Talking therapy for private clients on a part-time basis during evenings and weekends.
- Received
- 27 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Harlow District Council
- Ward
- Passmores South
- ReceivedReceived27 Oct
- ValidatedValidated27 Oct
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date1 Dec
- DecidedDecided18 Nov
Decided in 22 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for an outbuilding at 38 Barn Mead Harlow Essex CM18 6SN. Harlow has handled 88 applications of this type. This one was decided in 22 days, 4 weeks quicker than Harlow's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 5 applications across Passmores South. We hold 126 applications in total for the CM18 postcode area.
80% of outline 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
- Postcode
- CM18 6SN
- Application type
- Lawful Development Cert - Proposed
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 1 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 18 November 2030
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 35 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Article 4 direction: HMO - townwide
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
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, 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.
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