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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.
12,741 approved · 3,899 refused · 796 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
26 Hill Road Theydon Bois Epping Essex CM16 7LX
Received 13 Feb 201939-40 Fairmead Piercing Hill Theydon Bois Epping Essex CM16 7JW
Received 13 Feb 20195 Flagstaff Close Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1JB
Received 13 Feb 201924 St Albans Road Coopersale Epping Essex CM16 7RD
Received 13 Feb 201935 York Hill Loughton Essex IG10 1HU
Received 13 Feb 20191-3 Coopers Hill Ongar Essex CM5 9EE
Received 13 Feb 201918 Elizabeth Drive Theydon Bois Epping Essex CM16 7HJ
Received 13 Feb 2019Game Farm Cottages Old House Lane Roydon Essex CM19 5DN
Received 13 Feb 2019Norton Heath Riding Centre Now Little Ridings Lane relates To 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20 + 21 Only Fingrith Hall Lane High Ongar Ongar Essex CM4 0JP
Received 13 Feb 201935 Walter Mead Close Ongar Essex CM5 0BW
Received 13 Feb 2019Laurels Kents Lane Magdalen Laver Ongar Essex CM16 6AX
Received 13 Feb 201984 Avondale Drive Loughton Essex IG10 3DQ
Received 13 Feb 20192 Merlin Close Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 3NG
Received 13 Feb 2019Robroy Mill Lane High Ongar Ongar Essex CM5 9RQ
Received 13 Feb 2019Wickfields Limes Avenue Chigwell Essex IG7 5NG
Received 14 Feb 2019Centuries The Street Sheering Essex CM22 7LN
Received 14 Feb 2019Millers Croft Millers Farm Epping Road Roydon Harlow CM19 5DD
Received 11 Feb 2019Ravens Back Lane Nazeing Essex EN9 2RS
Received 14 Feb 201918 High Elms Chigwell Essex IG7 6NF
Received 14 Feb 2019Ravens Back Lane Nazeing Essex EN9 2RS
Received 14 Feb 201910 Queens Road Loughton Essex IG10 1RS
Received 14 Feb 201930 Wroths Path Loughton IG10 1SH
Received 14 Feb 2019Marrables 38 Hoe Lane Lambourne Essex RM4 1AU
Received 14 Feb 2019Norwood Bury Road Waltham Abbey Essex E4 7QL
Received 14 Feb 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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