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.
10,501 approved · 3,530 refused · 637 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jul 1999 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 Park Hill Loughton IG10 4ES
Received 9 Sept 2020Shadwalkers Middle Street Nazeing Waltham Abbey EN9 2LH
Received 26 Aug 2020Highbury Cottage 51 Coppice Row Theydon Bois Epping CM16 7DL
Received 10 Sept 202012 Bassett Gardens North Weald Bassett Epping CM16 6DB
Received 10 Sept 2020196 Crooked Mile Waltham Abbey EN9 2ES
Received 11 Sept 2020Brook Cottage 60 Weald Hall Lane Thornwood Epping CM16 6NB
Received 11 Sept 20209 Shelley Grove Loughton IG10 1BY
Received 11 Sept 2020Riversdale 2 Bushey Lea Ongar CM5 9ED
Received 11 Sept 2020Albyns Farm Albyns Lane Stapleford Abbotts Romford
Received 11 Sept 2020Garage Site at Ladyfields, Loughton, IG10 3RP
Received 14 Sept 2020Garage Block Pentlow Way Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6BZ
Received 14 Sept 202010 Hurst Road Buckhurst Hill IG9 6AB
Received 15 Sept 2020Land to rear of Oakleigh Cars The Street Sheering, Bishop's Stortford CM22 7LX
Received 14 Sept 2020Goldings Manor Cottage 3 Stanmore Way Loughton IG10 2SA
Received 14 Sept 20201 Priory Road Loughton IG10 1AF
Received 14 Sept 202050 Crows Road Epping CM16 5DF
Received 14 Sept 2020146 Queens Road Buckhurst Hill IG9 5BJ
Received 14 Sept 202065 The Broadway Loughton IG10 3SY
Received 15 Sept 202055 Bower Hill Epping CM16 7AN
Received 15 Sept 2020Grindelwald Middle Street Nazeing Waltham Abbey EN9 2LB
Received 15 Sept 202053 Stonards Hill Loughton IG10 3EH
Received 15 Sept 202017 St Marys Way Chigwell IG7 5BX
Received 15 Sept 2020Roydon Marina Village High Street Roydon Harlow CM19 5EJ
Received 15 Sept 2020Brook House Barn Epping Lane Stapleford Tawney Romford RM4 1ST
Received 15 Sept 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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