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.
12,471 approved · 3,859 refused · 774 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jul 1999 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
89 Palmerston Road Buckhurst Hill IG9 5NH
Received 13 Jan 202213 Primley Lane Sheering Harlow CM22 7NH
Received 13 Jan 20225 Hurst Road Buckhurst Hill IG9 6AB
Received 13 Jan 2022Southern Lodge Pedlars End Moreton Ongar CM5 0LW
Received 13 Jan 202237 Fairlands Avenue Buckhurst Hill IG9 5TF
Received 24 Jan 202268 Longfields Ongar CM5 9DE
Received 24 Jan 2022Robins Acre High Laver Road High Laver Ongar CM5 0DX
Received 24 Jan 2022Winston Farm Hoe Lane Nazeing Waltham Abbey EN9 2RJ
Received 25 Jan 20221 London Road Stanford Rivers Ongar CM5 9PH
Received 25 Jan 2022140 Church Hill Loughton IG10 1LH
Received 25 Jan 2022Cartwheels Sidney Road Theydon Bois Epping Essex CM16 7DT
Received 15 May 2018228 Willingale Road Loughton Essex IG10 2BX
Received 15 May 201815 The Meadows Sheering Essex CM21 9PY
Received 15 May 20181 Hillside Cottages 160 Hoe Lane Lambourne Essex RM4 1NP
Received 15 May 201822 Purlieu Way Theydon Bois Epping Essex CM16 7ED
Received 15 May 2018209 D/E High Road Loughton Essex IG10 1BB
Received 15 May 2018Street Record Oak Tree Close Loughton Essex IG10 2RE
Received 15 May 2018Brent House Farm Harlow Common Hastingwood Essex CM17 9JD
Received 15 May 2018182 The Broadway Loughton Essex IG10 3SS
Received 15 May 20186 Albion Hill Loughton Essex IG10 4RA
Received 16 May 2018Robins Wood Birds Green Willingale Ongar Essex CM5 0PR
Received 16 May 201854 Ollards Grove Loughton Essex IG10 4DW
Received 16 May 2018Ambresbury House Theydon Road Theydon Bois Essex CM16 4EF
Received 16 May 2018Haylands 48 High Road Chigwell Essex IG7 6DL
Received 16 May 2018Records 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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