Plans to bulldoze a house to make way for three flats and one three-bedroom house look set to be rejected.
Epping Forest District Council will consider the plans for the development in Buttercross Lane on Wednesday evening – the planning committee's decision will be available online on Thursday.
The proposal would see the existing building on the site demolished for a three-bedroom house and three two-bedroom flats.
This is the fourth attempt by the applicant to gain planning approval for a development on the site. Three previous applications were opposed by the town council and two of them were refused permission by the district council, the other application was withdrawn.
A planning report states: "Buttercross Lane has a vehicle access problem with the current number of houses located on this very small lane and this proposal would make the issue far worse with the extra traffic. The entrance to Buttercross Lane is extremely narrow and traffic already exits onto pedestrian pathways, in a busy High Street and Market Town.
"There also would not be enough parking spaces provided for occupants and visitors for these three two-bedroom apartments and one three-bedroom house on this site proposal."
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