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.
10,606 approved · 3,544 refused · 653 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 3 Ashlings Farm House Ashlings Farm Lane High Ongar Essex CM4 0JU
Received 3 Jun 201946 Roding Lane Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6BJ
Received 3 Jun 2019138 Loughton Way Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6AR
Received 4 Jun 201931 Whitehills Road Loughton Essex IG10 1TS
Received 4 Jun 2019Cobbins End Farm Cobbinsend Road Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 2AA
Received 4 Jun 2019The Farmhouse Warlies Park Farm Woodgreen Road Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 3SD
Received 4 Jun 20192 Carroll Hill Loughton Essex IG10 1NJ
Received 4 Jun 2019Piggotts Farm Abridge Road Theydon Bois Epping Essex RM4 1TX
Received 4 Jun 2019Inglenook Epping Road Nazeing Waltham Abbey EN9 2DH
Received 4 Jun 2019219 High Street Epping Essex CM16 4BL
Received 4 Jun 20192 Hill Road Theydon Bois Epping Essex CM16 7LX
Received 4 Jun 20198 Shelley Grove Loughton Essex IG10 1BY
Received 31 May 2019Piggotts Farm Abridge Road Theydon Bois Epping Essex RM4 1TX
Received 4 Jun 201999 Forest Road Loughton Essex IG10 1EF
Received 5 Jun 201938 Roebuck Lane Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5QX
Received 5 Jun 20198 Goldings Hill Loughton Essex IG10 1LL
Received 5 Jun 2019Crown Park Farm Bournebridge Lane Stapleford Abbotts Essex RM4 1LU
Received 5 Jun 201952 Coolgardie Avenue Chigwell Essex IG7 5AY
Received 5 Jun 201938 Chigwell Lane Loughton Essex IG10 3NY
Received 5 Jun 2019Land rear of 52 and 54 Palmerston Road Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5LH
Received 5 Jun 2019100 Brooker Road Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1JH
Received 6 Jun 2019Globe Cottage 19 Lambourne Road Chigwell Essex IG7 6HA
Received 6 Jun 2019Fairmount Lodge 138 High Road Chigwell Essex IG7 5BQ
Received 6 Jun 201975 Lechmere Avenue Chigwell Essex IG7 5EZ
Received 6 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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