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Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College, Roding Lane, Chigwell, Essex IG7 6BQ

Awaiting decision Epping Forest EPF/2501/24 Full planning permission

Works: New dwelling Demolition

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Proposal

Proposed new special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) school including playing fields alongside a landscape led enabling residential development including conversion of existing college building to residential, partial demolition of existing outbuildings, provision of flexible Class F2 floorspace and associated works. *REVISED PLANS AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS*

As published by the council, reference EPF/2501/24

Application record

Reference
EPF/2501/24
Type
Full planning permission
Status
Under Consultation
Received
12 Dec 2024
Validated
12 Dec 2024
Ward
Chigwell with Lambourne
Parish
Chigwell
Postcode
IG7 6BQ

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 12 Dec 2024

    Received by Epping Forest

  2. 23 Jul 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

  3. Decision

    Awaiting decision

    Decision expected by 6 February 2025, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.

    Epping Forest took a median of 56 days over the applications it decided in the last year.

Documents

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

299 documents on file for this application

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What happens while it is decided

This application is with Epping Forest for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Epping Forest decided full applications in a median of 84 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.

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