®Planning appeal decision
Cock & Magpie Public House, Epping Green, EPPING, CM16 6PU
Application for Outline Planning Permission for the demolition of an obsolete former Public House, change of use of land and re- development to provide x 8 no. new dwelling houses, including ancillary works
- Authority
- Epping Forest District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Chalk M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would result in the unacceptable loss of an employment use and community facility
- Whether the scale of the appeal proposal would constitute overdevelopment of the appeal site
What decided it
The unacceptable loss of the public house as a community facility and source of employment, which attracted significant weight and outweighed the moderate benefits of new housing and economic activity.
The benefits of eight new houses, economic benefits and reuse of previously developed land (moderate weight) were outweighed by the significant harm from loss of the public house as a community facility and employment use in a rural area with limited access to services.
Plan policies cited: Policy CF12, Policy D 4, Policy E 1, Policies DBE1, DBE5, DBE6, DBE8, SP 3, T 1, DM 5, DM 9, DM 10, Policy CP7
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.