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.
10,426 approved · 3,516 refused · 634 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Beaumont Park Drive Roydon Harlow CM19 5HB
Received 3 Sept 20209 Firs Drive Loughton IG10 2SL
Received 4 Sept 20201 Lampetts Cottages Moreton Road Fyfield Ongar CM5 0HT
Received 4 Sept 202036 Tower Road Epping CM16 5EN
Received 4 Sept 202036 Tower Road Epping CM16 5EN
Received 4 Sept 20205 Tomswood Road Chigwell IG7 5QP
Received 4 Sept 202021 Little Brook Road Roydon Harlow CM19 5LR
Received 4 Sept 2020Saint Michael And All Angels Church Roding Road Loughton Essex
Received 4 Sept 2020Mandeville House Epping Road Roydon Harlow CM19 5HT
Received 4 Sept 202094 Avondale Drive Loughton IG10 3DQ
Received 4 Sept 20201 Stonards Hill Epping CM16 4QE
Received 4 Sept 2020Civic Offices, Epping Forest District Council 323 High Street Epping CM16 4BZ
Received 4 Sept 202029 Forest Avenue Chigwell IG7 5BP
Received 7 Sept 2020Durrington House Sheering Lower Road Sheering Harlow CM17 0NE
Received 4 Sept 202016 Victoria Road Buckhurst Hill IG9 5ES
Received 7 Sept 2020138 Buckhurst Way Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6HP
Received 7 Sept 202053 Stonards Hill Loughton IG10 3EH
Received 7 Sept 2020Parvills Farm Chambers Manor Farm Lane Epping Upland Epping CM16 6PL
Received 7 Sept 2020Garages at 92/94 Beechfield Walk Waltham Abbey Essex
Received 7 Sept 2020Kirby Close Loughton Essex
Received 7 Sept 2020Land and Garages to rear of 2 -12 Hornbeam Road (Hornbeam Close Site B) Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6JS
Received 7 Sept 2020Hornbeam Road Buckhurst Hill Essex
Received 7 Sept 2020Garages at rear of numbers 62-72 Etheridge Road and at rear of 8-13 Etheridge Green Loughton Essex IG10 2HY
Received 7 Sept 2020Land and Garages rear of 54 - 60 Hornbeam Road (Bourne House) Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6JY
Received 7 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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