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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.
11,323 approved · 3,655 refused · 696 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Clarador Betts Lane Nazeing Waltham Abbey EN9 2DB
Received 26 Oct 2020Poona Lawn Nazeing Road Waltham Abbey EN9 2HY
Received 26 Oct 202047 Homefield Waltham Abbey EN9 3LP
Received 26 Oct 202024 Farm Way Buckhurst Hill IG9 5AH
Received 26 Oct 202077 Hemnall Street Epping CM16 4ND
Received 26 Oct 202028 Graylands Theydon Bois Epping CM16 7LB
Received 26 Oct 2020Agricultural Land off unnamed road off London Road North of Bobs Barn Stapleford Tawney Romford RM4 1SP
Received 26 Oct 202036 Station Road Loughton IG10 4NX
Received 27 Oct 2020West Lodge Coppice Row Theydon Bois Epping CM16 7DR
Received 27 Oct 20206 The Spinney Ongar CM5 9HP
Received 28 Oct 2020Littlebourne 2 Crooked Way Nazeing Waltham Abbey EN9 2LE
Received 27 Oct 20203 Dacre Cottages Berners Roding Road Abbess Beauchamp And Berners Roding Ongar CM5 0SY
Received 27 Oct 202018 Marks Avenue Ongar CM5 9AY
Received 27 Oct 20204 Brickfield Road Coopersale Epping CM16 7QX
Received 27 Oct 2020Glade Lands Toot Hill Road Stanford Rivers Ongar CM5 9LJ
Received 26 Oct 202010B Hemnall Street Epping CM16 4LW
Received 28 Oct 2020Rolls House Rolls Park High Road Chigwell IG7 6DJ
Received 28 Oct 2020Gilden Way and Sheering Road Public Highways and Land Between Sheering Road and M11 Motorway
Received 28 Oct 20205 Tysea Hill Stapleford Abbotts ROMFORD RM4 1JS
Received 28 Oct 202091 Queens Road Buckhurst Hill IG9 5BW
Received 28 Oct 2020Vine Cottage 7 Toot Hill Epping, Essex CM5 9QW
Received 28 Oct 20201 Lampetts Cottages Moreton Road Fyfield Ongar CM5 0HT
Received 28 Oct 202031 Woburn Avenue Theydon Bois Epping CM16 7JR
Received 28 Oct 20201 Mill House Abbess Road Little Laver Ongar CM5 0JF
Received 28 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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