Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Epping Forest District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
9,877 approved · 3,407 refused · 591 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jul 1999 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Garra 292 Nine Ashes Road High Ongar Ongar Essex CM4 0LA
Received 16 Apr 2019The Briars Old House Lane Roydon Essex CM19 5DN
Received 16 Apr 201967 Tomswood Road Chigwell Essex IG7 5QR
Received 16 Apr 201921 The Crescent Loughton Essex IG10 4PY
Received 17 Apr 2019Priors Court Sheering Lower Road Sheering Essex CM21 9FL
Received 17 Apr 2019Forestside Baldwins Hill Loughton Essex IG10 1SD
Received 17 Apr 201976 Willingale Road Loughton Essex IG10 2DB
Received 17 Apr 2019Halfords Ltd 229 High Road Loughton Essex IG10 1AD
Received 17 Apr 201990 Buckhurst Way Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6HP
Received 17 Apr 201911 Brook Road Loughton Essex IG10 1BW
Received 17 Apr 2019Fairmount Lodge 138 High Road Chigwell Essex IG7 5BQ
Received 18 Apr 201917 Wheelers Epping Essex CM16 5AL
Received 18 Apr 201943B Charles Street Epping Essex CM16 7AU
Received 18 Apr 20193 Mountbatten Court Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6DH
Received 18 Apr 2019Land adjacent to Ivy Cottage Bournebridge Lane Stapleford Abbotts Essex RM4 1LU
Received 18 Apr 2019High View 42 Tomswood Road Chigwell Essex IG7 5QS
Received 18 Apr 201917 Hemnall Street Epping Essex CM16 4LS
Received 3 Oct 201855 High Street Epping Essex CM16 4BA
Received 4 Dec 201929 Gladstone Road Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5SW
Received 4 Dec 20192 Old Glass House (Formerly Ericas Nursery) Kents Lane North Weald Bassett Epping CM16 6AX
Received 4 Dec 20194 Linkside Chigwell IG7 5DN
Received 4 Dec 2019High Elms 1 Nafferton Rise Loughton Essex IG10 1UB
Received 5 Dec 2019Croft Cottage Tylers Road Roydon Harlow CM19 5LJ
Received 5 Dec 2019Coopersale House Houblons Hill Coopersale Epping CM16 7QL
Received 5 Dec 2019Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Epping Forest District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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