A DEVELOPER has appealed against the decision to reject plans to build flats and shops on a heritage site where a listed 400-year-old building was illegally bulldozed.
Mintgreen Properties have asked the Government's Planning Inspectorate to overturn Epping Forest District Council's refusal to grant planning permission for the three-storey building in Highbridge Street, Waltham Abbey.
Tudor Building Services, which carried out works for Mintgreen Properties at the site, has just been fined £5,000 for demoliting a 17th-Century building on the land which sits within the town's Conservation area.
The company could have been handed an unlimited fine and jailed for two years, and heritage campaigners branded the punishment a "token gesture".
Comments on the appeal - reference APP/J1535/A/09/2098883 - must be submitted by April 16, and can be lodged at www.planningportal.gov.uk/pcs.
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