Additional Community Space in Epping Hall

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Additional community space with Epping Hall extension

Epping Town Council has submitted a planning application for redevelopment plans for Epping Hall, this will increase the amount of community space available for hire, and provide additional office space for the town council.

These plans would provide two new community spaces available for hire and improved storage so that more community groups can be accommodated at the hall.

The council says additional community space is needed to support the increasing number of new residents who will be moving into the town when the residential developments are built at St John's Road, on the Conder Building site at the Civic Offices and on the current Epping Sports Centre site in Hemnall Street.

No members of the public attended Tuesday's planning and general purposes committee to comment on the proposals.

Committee chairman councillor Nigel Avey said the proposed work would make the public space in the building more usable and extend the life of the hall. He said "It will hopefully be a welcome change.”

The current hall was built in 1999 to replace the original Epping Hall.

The planning application is to provide an improved lobby, reception and office facilities for the town council, as well as a new community space.

There would be two individual offices created within the main office to accommodate five members of staff while the creation of "more usable" community space would see a new separate access to the rooms for hire without having to enter the main building.