Unit 4 Merlin House West Road Harlow Essex CM20 2GB
Withdrawn on 8 April 2025
Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Conversion of an existing office unit into residential use with the construction of a third floor on top of the existing building, and the creation of six new two-bedroom flats.
- Received
- 14 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Harlow District Council
- Ward
- Mark Hall North
- ReceivedReceived14 Feb
- ValidatedValidated18 Feb
- Consult.Consultation17 Mar
- TargetTarget Date25 Mar
- DecidedDecided8 Apr
Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application at Unit 4 Merlin House West Road Harlow Essex CM20 2GB. Harlow has handled 88 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 53 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Mark Hall North. We hold 252 applications in total for the CM20 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
- CM20 2GB
- Application type
- Prior Approval Dwellings Commercial
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 February 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 27 March 2025
- Consultation start
- 24 February 2025
- Consultation end
- 17 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 25 February 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 18 March 2025
- Last date for comments
- 27 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 25 March 2025
- Permission expires
- 8 April 2030
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 35 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 6 March 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 27 March 2025
- Site notice start
- 27 February 2025
- Site notice end
- 20 March 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13780452
- Documents
- 20
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Article 4 direction: HMO - townwide+1 more
- 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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