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.
13,001 approved · 3,939 refused · 812 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jul 1999 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Goldings Rise Loughton Essex IG10 2QP
Received 6 Sept 20196 A Kendal Avenue Epping CM16 4PN
Received 6 Sept 2019Lavender Cottage 12 Forest Way Loughton IG10 1JG
Received 9 Sept 2019The Cottage Toot Hill Road Stanford Rivers Ongar CM5 9LJ
Received 5 Sept 2019182 Queens Road Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5BD
Received 9 Sept 2019Sedge Gate House Sedge Green Nazeing Waltham Abbey EN9 2PA
Received 9 Sept 201917 Rodney Road Ongar Essex CM5 9HN
Received 9 Sept 20191 Tomswood Road Chigwell Essex IG7 5QP
Received 9 Sept 2019The Brewhouse Church Lane Ongar Essex CM5 9LD
Received 9 Sept 20192 Hillcrest Way Epping Essex CM16 7AR
Received 9 Sept 2019Esso Ongar Express 271 -277 High Street Ongar Essex CM5 9AA
Received 9 Sept 201936 Coopersale Street Epping CM16 7QJ
Received 9 Sept 2019The Thatched Cottage The Street Sheering Essex CM22 7LT
Received 9 Sept 2019The Cottage Epping Long Green Epping Upland Epping Essex CM16 6QN
Received 9 Sept 2019The Thatched Cottage The Street Sheering Essex CM22 7LT
Received 9 Sept 20195 Institute Road Coopersale Epping Essex CM16 7QY
Received 11 Sept 2019Land r/o 33-37 Hillyfields Loughton IG10 2PT
Received 10 Sept 20194 Kendal Avenue Epping Essex CM16 4PN
Received 10 Sept 201926 Lee Grove Chigwell Essex IG7 6AF
Received 10 Sept 201941 Chigwell Rise Chigwell Essex IG7 6AQ
Received 10 Sept 2019Lambwood Heights 244 Lambourne Road and 1-25 Aspen Mews 242 Lambourne Road Formerly Woodview Chigwell Essex IG7 6HX
Received 10 Sept 2019Duke Of Wellington Public House 36 High Street Epping CM16 4AE
Received 10 Sept 20194 Southernhay Loughton Essex IG10 4EN
Received 11 Sept 2019New Barns Farm Roding Lane Chigwell IG7 6BJ
Received 11 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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