Depot Hillyfields Cooks Hole Road Enfield EN2 0UD Data via plota.co.uk

26/01473/CEU - Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - Existing Approved

Proposal

Existing use of premises as Use Class E(g), office and ground maintenance. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 09:11

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Application progress

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Received

14 Apr 2026

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Validated

21 Apr 2026

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Consultation

30 Apr 2026

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Approved

5 Jun 2026

Approved on 5 Jun 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 19 Jul 2026

Documents 4

Site constraints 8

Green belt: London

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm.

Article 4 direction

Borough wide. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.

An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.

Priority habitat: No main habitat but additional habitats present

A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.

Archaeological priority area

An assessment or field evaluation may be asked for before ground works.

The council or Historic England considers archaeology likely here. A desk-based assessment, and sometimes trial trenching, can be asked for with the application.

Air quality management area: Enfield AQMA

The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.

Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.

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Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Conservation area 87 m away: Clay Hill.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Enfield
Application type: Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - Existing
Postcode: EN2 0UD
Received: 14 Apr 2026
Validated: 21 Apr 2026
Ward: Whitewebbs
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 16 Jun 2026
Decision: Granted
Decision date: 5 Jun 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: DPA (London) Ltd

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14856444
Neighbours: 30 Apr 2026
Comments by: 24 May 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

2 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2022 Approved

The Cottage 1 Cooks Hole Road Enfield EN2 0UD

Erection of an oak framed ancillary annex.

22/00891/HOU 2 Dec 2022

2021 Refused

The Cottage 1 Cooks Hole Road Enfield EN2 0UD

Erection of an oak framed ancillary annex.

21/00009/HOU 11 Mar 2021

Enfield

Planning Authority Score

6.9/10

Good

#65 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Enfield is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #15 out of 296. Only 5% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Enfield is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 83% approved vs 90% nationally.

Among the fastest councils in England

for householder decisions

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Enfield decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

78%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #271 of 296

83%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #260 of 296

90%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #15 of 296

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #1 of 296

60%

Minor dwellings approved

265 decided (1-9 homes)

63%

Major dwellings approved

8 decided (10+ homes)

72%

Change of use approved

322 decided

1,939

Total decisions

433 refused in the year to March 2026