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.
10,591 approved · 3,544 refused · 651 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35 Bracken Drive Chigwell Essex IG7 5RG
Received 30 May 201966 Manor Road Chigwell Essex IG7 5PG
Received 30 May 201961 Charles Street Epping Essex CM16 7AX
Received 30 May 2019Land at Hoe Lane Lambourne End Essex RM4 1NL
Received 30 May 2019Hainault Hall 173 Lambourne Road Chigwell Essex IG7 6JU
Received 30 May 20196 Barrons Close Ongar Essex CM5 9BJ
Received 31 May 201926 Queens Road Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5BY
Received 31 May 2019The Orchard Fingrith Hall Lane High Ongar Ongar Essex CM4 0JP
Received 31 May 201933 Amberley Road Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5QW
Received 31 May 2019286 Willingale Road Loughton Essex IG10 2BP
Received 31 May 20198 Shelley Grove Loughton Essex IG10 1BY
Received 31 May 201957 Bell Common Epping Essex CM16 4DZ
Received 31 May 2019The Brambles Avenue Road Roydon Essex EN11 0BA
Received 31 May 20196 Carters Lane Epping Green Essex CM16 6QJ
Received 3 Jun 20192 Westmede Chigwell Essex IG7 5LR
Received 3 Jun 2019Ployters Farm Matching Green Matching Essex CM17 0QS
Received 5 Apr 201926 Queens Road Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5BY
Received 31 May 201912 Tower Road Epping Essex CM16 5EL
Received 3 Jun 2019Bittern Information Point Stubbins Hall Lane Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 2EE
Received 3 Jun 2019Virosa Nursery Hoe Lane Nazeing Essex EN9 2RN
Received 3 Jun 2019Virosa Nursery Hoe Lane Nazeing Essex EN9 2RN
Received 3 Jun 2019Tesco Stores Limited Sewardstone Road Waltham Abbey EN9 1NP
Received 3 Jun 20196 Scrap Villas Hastingwood Road Hastingwood Essex CM17 9JX
Received 3 Jun 20194 Southernhay Loughton Essex IG10 4EN
Received 3 Jun 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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