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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.
10,052 approved · 3,436 refused · 611 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land and Garages at Millfield High Ongar Ongar Essex CM5 9RJ
Received 18 Aug 2020Land and Garages adjacent 97 Queensway Ongar Essex CM5 0BP
Received 18 Aug 2020Garages adj 92/94 Beechfield Walk Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 3AD
Received 18 Aug 2020Land and Garages adjacent 13 Pick Hill Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 3HA
Received 18 Aug 2020140 - 142 Manor Road Chigwell Essex IG7 5PR
Received 19 Aug 2020Garages adjacent to 92 - 94 Beechfield Walk Waltham Abbey EN9 3AA
Received 20 Aug 202011 Princes Road Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5EE
Received 1 Sept 202074 Dukes Avenue Theydon Bois Epping CM16 7HF
Received 1 Sept 2020Land adjacent to 1 Egg Hall Epping Essex
Received 1 Sept 202033 Starling Close Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5TN
Received 1 Sept 202012 Eleven Acre Rise Loughton IG10 1AN
Received 8 Sept 202015 Rainbow Road Matching Tye Harlow CM17 0QP
Received 9 Sept 2020Luthers Sewardstone Road Waltham Abbey E4 7RF
Received 8 Sept 202054 Sun Street Waltham Abbey EN9 1EJ
Received 9 Sept 2020Tylers Cross Nursery Epping Road Nazeing Waltham Abbey EN9 2DH
Received 9 Sept 2020Land at Stoneshott Sedge Green Roydon Harlow CM19 5JR
Received 18 Sept 2020Former Ongar Campus - 71 The Gables Ongar Essex CM5 0GA
Received 20 Aug 2020Land and Garages rear of 54 - 60 Hornbeam Road (Bourne House) Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6JY
Received 18 Aug 2020Land and Garages to rear of 2 -12 Hornbeam Road (Hornbeam Close Site B) Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6JS
Received 18 Aug 2020Land and Garages to the rear of 30-34A Hornbeam Road (adj Hornbeam House) Hornbeam Road Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6JT
Received 18 Aug 2020Land At The Rear Of The White Bear P.H. 149 London Road Stanford Rivers Ongar CM5 9QF
Received 20 Aug 2020BP Harlow Gate A414 Bypass (Nr London Road) Harlow CM17 9AG
Received 20 Aug 2020The Coach House Ashlyns Lane Ongar CM5 0NB
Received 20 Aug 2020The Mount Debden Road Loughton IG10 2NY
Received 20 Aug 2020Records 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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