Planning application
Spains Hall, Spains Hall Road, Willingale, Ongar, CM5 0QE
Works: Demolition Small domestic
Read from the description, not a valuation. How we read the register
Refused. Only the applicant can appeal, within the statutory time limit, and a revised scheme can be submitted instead.
Proposal
Erection of a detached single-storey cutting plant and butchery building (meat packing house), following the demolition of a freestanding concrete framed canopy structure within the farmyard.
As published by the council, reference EPF/2392/25
Application record
- Reference
- EPF/2392/25
- Type
- Full planning permission
- Status
- Decision Made
- Decision
- Refused As published: Refuse
- Received
- 26 Nov 2025
- Validated
- 26 Nov 2025
- Decided
- 30 Jan 2026
- Ward
- Rural East
- Parish
- Willingale
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- CM5 0QE
Site history
Applications at this address on the Epping Forest register
This site has had 3 applications since 2025: 1 approved, 1 refused.
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EPF/1669/26 Awaiting decision
Spains Hall , Spains Hall Road, Willingale, Ongar, CM5 0QE
Approval of Details Reserved by Condition 4 Regulation 77 of EPF/1281/26 (Notification for prior approval under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class R of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for the change of use of an existing agricultural building and land within its curtilage at the Umbrella Building, Spains Hall, to Class E(g)(iii) light industrial use, with no operational development proposed).
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EPF/1281/26 Granted
Spains Hall, Spains Hall Road, Willingale, Ongar, CM5 0QE
Notification for prior approval under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class R of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for the change of use of an existing agricultural building and land within its curtilage at the Umbrella Building, Spains Hall, to Class E(g)(iii) light industrial use, with no operational development proposed.
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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26 Nov 2025
Received by Epping Forest
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30 Jan 2026
Decision issued: Refuse
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9 Sep 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
20 documents on file for this application
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