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.
9,927 approved · 3,414 refused · 595 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Fish And Eels Dobbs Weir Road Roydon Harlow EN11 0AY
Received 8 Jan 202012 Grosvenor Drive Loughton Essex IG10 2LH
Received 9 Jan 20202 Haydens Cottage 113 High Road Chigwell Essex IG7 6QQ
Received 9 Jan 2020Garage Site at Ladyfields, Loughton, IG10 3RP
Received 8 Jan 2020Land and garages Kirby Close Loughton Essex IG10 3BA
Received 9 Jan 2020Chigwell Cemetery Manor Road Chigwell IG7 5PS
Received 21 Jan 202080 Upshire Road Waltham Abbey EN9 3PA
Received 21 Jan 2020155 Old Nazeing Road Nazeing Waltham Abbey Broxbourne EN10 6QU
Received 22 Jan 2020Little Weald Hall Rayley Lane North Weald Bassett Epping CM16 6AR
Received 22 Jan 2020176 Willingale Road Loughton IG10 2BZ
Received 22 Jan 202033 St Albans Road Coopersale Epping CM16 7RD
Received 22 Jan 2020Ada Cole Memorial Stables Epping Road Nazeing Waltham Abbey EN9 2DH
Received 22 Jan 2020Tilegate Barn Threshers Bush Matching Harlow CM5 0EA
Received 22 Jan 2020Coopersale Farm, The Stables Houblons Hill Coopersale Epping CM16 7QL
Received 31 Jan 2020Martins Cottage Matching Green Matching Harlow CM17 0PR
Received 31 Jan 20205 Hurst Road Buckhurst Hill IG9 6AB
Received 31 Jan 20201 Fontayne Avenue Chigwell IG7 5HB
Received 20 Dec 201931 Sheering Mill Lane Sheering Harlow CM21 9LW
Received 23 Dec 201947 Stewarts Cross School Road Stanford Rivers Ongar CM5 9PT
Received 23 Dec 2019The Thatched Cottage Bury Lane Epping CM16 5JA
Received 23 Dec 2019107 Grange Crescent Chigwell IG7 5JD
Received 9 Jan 20209 York Road North Weald Bassett Epping CM16 6HT
Received 23 Dec 2019Garages at rear of numbers 62-72 Etheridge Road and at rear of 8-13 Etheridge Green Loughton Essex IG10 2HY
Received 23 Dec 2019Land and Garages rear of 54 - 60 Hornbeam Road (Bourne House) Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6JY
Received 23 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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