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.
11,343 approved · 3,659 refused · 697 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Fifteen Public House 15 York Hill Loughton IG10 1RL
Received 7 Jan 20198 Connaught Avenue Loughton Essex IG10 4DP
Received 7 Jan 20191 Knights Walk Lambourne Essex RM4 1DR
Received 7 Jan 201961 Charles Street Epping Essex CM16 7AX
Received 8 Jan 20191B Tower Road Epping Essex CM16 5EL
Received 7 Jan 2019Woodlands Avenue Road Roydon Essex EN11 0BA
Received 7 Jan 2019United Reformed Church High Street Ongar Essex CM5 9EA
Received 7 Jan 201932 Kettlebury Way Ongar Essex CM5 9EX
Received 8 Jan 201948 Stradbroke Grove Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5PF
Received 8 Jan 201948 Stradbroke Grove Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5PF
Received 8 Jan 201961 Charles Street Epping Essex CM16 7AX
Received 8 Jan 201967 Woodland Way Theydon Bois Epping Essex CM16 7DY
Received 8 Jan 20195 Chestnut Avenue Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6EN
Received 8 Jan 2019Land adjacent Brook Cottage School Lane Abbess Beauchamp And Berners Roding Ongar Essex CM5 0NY
Received 8 Jan 2019Sunnycroft Loughton Lane Theydon Bois Epping Essex CM16 7JY
Received 8 Jan 2019Cranbourne Bury Road Waltham Abbey Essex E4 7QL
Received 8 Jan 201910 Ivy Chimneys Road Epping Essex CM16 4EL
Received 8 Jan 201978 Avondale Drive Loughton Essex IG10 3DQ
Received 8 Jan 2019Elm Bank Epping Road Roydon Essex CM19 5HU
Received 8 Jan 2019The Firs Epping Road Roydon Essex CM19 5HU
Received 8 Jan 2019Didgemere Hall Low Hall Road Roydon Essex CM19 5JN
Received 9 Jan 20191 Newhouse Lane Bobbingworth Ongar Essex CM5 0DH
Received 9 Jan 201926 Brook Way Chigwell Essex IG7 6AW
Received 10 Jan 2019Ploughcroft Cottage 13 Bridge Hill Epping Essex CM16 4ER
Received 9 Jan 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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