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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.
11,315 approved · 3,653 refused · 696 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
37 Roding Gardens Loughton IG10 3NH
Received 22 Oct 202037 Roding Gardens Loughton IG10 3NH
Received 22 Oct 202072 Tycehurst Hill Loughton IG10 1DA
Received 22 Oct 2020Hillcrest 136 High Road Chigwell IG7 5BQ
Received 22 Oct 202043 Woodland Way Theydon Bois Epping CM16 7DY
Received 22 Oct 2020Garden Cottage Mount Road Theydon Mount Epping CM16 7PP
Received 22 Oct 2020Civic Offices, Epping Forest District Council 323 High Street Epping CM16 4BZ
Received 22 Oct 2020Haylands Cottage Green Lane Chigwell IG7 6DN
Received 22 Oct 20201 Alderton Way Loughton IG10 3EQ
Received 22 Oct 2020110 Luxborough Lane Chigwell IG7 5AA
Received 22 Oct 202016 Stonyshotts Waltham Abbey EN9 3DH
Received 22 Oct 2020Cotleigh Oak Hill Road Stapleford Abbotts Romford RM4 1JL
Received 23 Oct 2020Garden Cottage Mount Road Theydon Mount Epping CM16 7PP
Received 22 Oct 2020Longfields Radley Green Road Willingale Ongar Essex CM5 0QJ
Received 23 Oct 202071 High Street Epping CM16 4BA
Received 23 Oct 20205 Dacre Close Chigwell IG7 5HQ
Received 26 Oct 2020Land to the Rear of 165 High Road Loughton Essex IG10 4LF
Received 23 Oct 2020Fairview Reeves Lane Roydon Harlow CM19 5LE
Received 23 Oct 2020Oak Cottage Abbess Road Little Laver Ongar CM5 0JG
Received 23 Oct 202036 Mannock Drive Loughton IG10 2JB
Received 23 Oct 202010 Great Oaks Chigwell IG7 5ES
Received 23 Oct 2020Land at the corner of Englands Lane and Clay Lane, to the rear of 8 Coles Green Loughton Essex IG10 2QS
Received 23 Oct 202081 Theydon Park Road Theydon Bois Epping CM16 7LS
Received 26 Oct 2020Forest Lodge 1 Fairmeadside Loughton IG10 4RH
Received 26 Oct 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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