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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.
12,616 approved · 3,878 refused · 787 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
23 Newteswell Drive Waltham Abbey EN9 1QF
Received 9 Nov 202020 Elizabeth Drive Theydon Bois Epping CM16 7HJ
Received 10 Nov 2020Cowicks Hatfield Heath Road Sheering Essex CM21 9HX
Received 10 Nov 2020Stapleford Farm Oak Hill Road Stapleford Abbotts Romford RM4 1EH
Received 11 Nov 20204 Hayden Road Waltham Abbey EN9 3YU
Received 11 Nov 2020Knightlands House 46 Berwick Lane Stanford Rivers Ongar CM5 9PX
Received 11 Nov 2020Paslow Common Farm Nine Ashes Road High Ongar CM4 0JY
Received 11 Nov 202045 Grange Crescent Chigwell IG7 5JD
Received 11 Nov 2020105 Loughton Way Buckhurst Hill IG9 6AS
Received 11 Nov 2020Land at Chequers Road Loughton IG10 3PU
Received 12 Nov 202035 Meadow Way Chigwell IG7 6LR
Received 13 Nov 202013 Turners Close Ongar CM5 9HH
Received 16 Nov 202018 Ely Place Chigwell IG8 8AG
Received 16 Nov 20209 Tudor Close Chigwell IG7 5BG
Received 16 Nov 202051 Hornbeam Road Theydon Bois Epping CM16 7JU
Received 16 Nov 202065 A Tower Road Epping CM16 5EN
Received 16 Nov 2020Gilden Way and Sheering Road Public Highways and Land Between Sheering Road and M11 Motorway
Received 29 Oct 2020Nazeing Park Cottage Back Lane Nazeing Waltham Abbey EN9 2RS
Received 17 Nov 20201 Heron Close Buckhurst Hill IG9 5TP
Received 16 Nov 2020Hall Farm Tilegate Road Magdalen Laver Ongar CM5 0EG
Received 16 Nov 2020Civic Offices, Epping Forest District Council 323 High Street Epping CM16 4BZ
Received 16 Nov 2020Tottenham Hotspur Training Ground Luxborough Lane Chigwell Essex IG7 5AB
Received 17 Nov 202099 Manor Road Chigwell IG7 5PN
Received 17 Nov 2020Nazeing Park Cottage Back Lane Nazeing Waltham Abbey EN9 2RS
Received 17 Nov 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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