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Garage Site at Castell Road, Loughton, IG10 2LT

Refused Epping Forest EPF/0646/23 Full planning permission

Works: New dwelling Demolition

Refused. Only the applicant can appeal, within the statutory time limit, and a revised scheme can be submitted instead.

Proposal

Demolition of existing garages and the addition of four new build flats; 2 1B2P & 2 2B4P (2 storey), designed to achieve Passivhaus standards, with new 8 no. parking spaces, standalone bin stores to the front of the property, private standalone cycle stores in rear gardens for the ground floor units and shared cycle store to the front for the first floor units.

As published by the council, reference EPF/0646/23

Application record

Reference
EPF/0646/23
Type
Full planning permission
Status
Decision Made
Decision
Refused As published: Refuse
Received
22 Mar 2023
Validated
14 Jun 2023
Decided
30 Oct 2025
Ward
Loughton Fairmead
Parish
Loughton
Decision by
Committee A
Postcode
IG10 2LT

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 22 Mar 2023

    Received by Epping Forest

  2. 14 Jun 2023

    Validated

    Checked as complete and ready for consideration.

  3. 30 Oct 2025

    Decision issued: Refuse

  4. 9 Sep 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

46 documents on file for this application

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What this refusal means

Epping Forest refused this application for the reasons on the decision notice; only the applicant can appeal, and refused schemes often return in revised form. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.

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