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.
11,332 approved · 3,655 refused · 696 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jul 1999 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Gladstone Road Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5SW
Received 5 Jul 2019108 Roundhills Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1UP
Received 8 Jul 20191 Priors Court Sheering Lower Road Sheering Harlow CM21 9RB
Received 8 Jul 201926 Farm Way Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5AH
Received 8 Jul 2019184 High Street Epping Essex CM16 4AQ
Received 5 Jul 201930 Brooklyn Avenue Loughton Essex IG10 1BL
Received 8 Jul 201938 High Beech Road Loughton Essex IG10 4BL
Received 8 Jul 201942 Castle Street Ongar Essex CM5 9JS
Received 8 Jul 2019Broadbanks 23 Ivy Chimneys Road Epping Essex CM16 4EL
Received 8 Jul 2019Abridge Village Hall 39 Ongar Road Abridge Lambourne Essex RM4 1UU
Received 9 Jul 201944 Barrington Green Loughton Essex IG10 2BA
Received 9 Jul 20191 Elmbridge Hall Fyfield Ongar Essex CM5 0TN
Received 10 Jul 201923 Baldwins Hill Loughton IG10 1SF
Received 9 Jul 201930 Townmead Road Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1RP
Received 9 Jul 2019Garden Centre Crown Hill Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 3TF
Received 9 Jul 2019High Warren Mount End Road Theydon Mount Epping Essex CM16 7PT
Received 9 Jul 2019Gunpowder Mill The Power House Powdermill Lane Waltham Abbey EN9 1BN
Received 9 Jul 2019Ashview Hamlet Hill Roydon Essex CM19 5LA
Received 9 Jul 201917 Stony Path Loughton Essex IG10 1SJ
Received 10 Jul 2019Havana Hamlet Hill Roydon Essex CM19 5LA
Received 10 Jul 2019130 Hanson Drive Loughton Essex IG10 2EA
Received 10 Jul 20198 Brooklyn Avenue Loughton Essex IG10 1BL
Received 10 Jul 2019White Lodge Little Laver Road Little Laver Essex CM5 0JF
Received 12 Jul 2019Garra 292 Nine Ashes Road High Ongar Ongar Essex CM4 0LA
Received 11 Jul 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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