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5 Petal Lane Newhall Harlow Essex CM17 9FF

HW/LDCP/25/00529Lawful Development Cert - ProposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 6 February 2026

Council decision: Would Not Be Lawful Use/DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Erection of a single storey detached garden room, providing a bedroom/living facility

Received
30 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Newhall
Agent
Holmes-Design Limited
  1. Received30 Dec
  2. Validated30 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target3 Feb
  5. Decided6 Feb

Decided in 38 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for an outbuilding at 5 Petal Lane Newhall Harlow Essex CM17 9FF. Harlow has handled 88 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 11 days quicker than Harlow's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across Newhall. We hold 401 applications in total for the CM17 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
CM17 9FF
Application type
Lawful Development Cert - Proposed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 December 2025
Target decision date
3 February 2026
Decision issued
11 February 2026
Permission expires
11 February 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent
Holmes-Design Limited
Architect profile
HOLMES DESIGN LTD
Agent address
9B Mornington Road Woodford Green Essex IG8 0TS

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14593612
Comments
0
Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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: Harlow

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