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.
11,342 approved · 3,657 refused · 696 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
41 Fontayne Avenue Chigwell Essex IG7 5HD
Received 11 Jul 2019White Lodge Little Laver Road Little Laver Essex CM5 0JF
Received 12 Jul 201919 Ely Place Chigwell IG8 8AG
Received 12 Jul 20194 Powdermill Mews Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1JG
Received 12 Jul 2019Broadbanks 23 Ivy Chimneys Road Epping Essex CM16 4EL
Received 12 Jul 2019The Laurels New Road Lambourne Essex RM4 1DY
Received 15 Jul 201918 Hillltop Close Loughton Essex IG10 1PY
Received 15 Jul 2019Kormakitis Belchers Lane Nazeing Waltham Abbey EN9 2SA
Received 15 Jul 201944 Buckingham Road Epping Essex CM16 5AG
Received 15 Jul 201932 Queens Road Loughton Essex IG10 1RS
Received 15 Jul 20191 Mount End Mount End Road Theydon Mount Epping Essex CM16 7PS
Received 15 Jul 201938 Upper Park Loughton Essex IG10 4EQ
Received 16 Jul 2019123 High Street Ongar Essex CM5 9JA
Received 15 Jul 20192 Whitehills Road Loughton Essex IG10 1TS
Received 15 Jul 2019123 High Street Ongar Essex CM5 9JA
Received 15 Jul 201981 High Road Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5SN
Received 16 Jul 201937 Colebrook Lane Loughton Essex IG10 2HJ
Received 16 Jul 201993 Turpins Lane Chigwell Essex IG8 8BA
Received 16 Jul 201939 Berwick Lane Stanford Rivers Ongar Essex CM5 9PZ
Received 16 Jul 201910 Sibley Row Common Road Roydon Essex EN9 2DG
Received 18 Jul 2019Oakwood House 19 Forest Lane Chigwell IG7 5AF
Received 23 Jul 2019106 Manor Road Chigwell IG7 5PQ
Received 13 Sept 2019Crystal Brook Little Gregories Lane Theydon Bois Epping Essex CM16 7JP
Received 16 Sept 2019The Hermitage Tysea Hill Stapleford Abbotts Romford RM4 1JP
Received 16 Sept 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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