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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.
13,131 approved · 3,951 refused · 820 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
57 Grange Crescent Chigwell Essex IG7 5JD
Received 26 Feb 2019216 Forest Edge Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5AF
Received 25 Feb 2019Ridgemount Low Hill Road Roydon Essex CM19 5JN
Received 26 Feb 201942 Woolhampton Way Chigwell Essex IG7 4QJ
Received 26 Feb 201943 Pecks Hill Nazeing Essex EN9 2NX
Received 26 Feb 2019Nonsuch Cottage Back Lane Nazeing Essex EN9 2RS
Received 26 Feb 20195 Church Street Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1DX
Received 27 Feb 201938 Highland Road Nazeing Essex EN9 2PT
Received 27 Feb 20194 Northdene Chigwell Essex IG7 5JT
Received 27 Feb 201942 Stradbroke Drive Chigwell Essex IG7 5QY
Received 27 Feb 2019The Old School School Lane High Laver Ongar Essex CM5 0EE
Received 27 Feb 2019Lakeview Kennels Claverhambury Road Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 2BL
Received 27 Feb 2019Abbey House 151 Brooker Road Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1HU
Received 27 Feb 2019Broadley End Farm Common Road Nazeing Essex EN9 2DF
Received 27 Feb 2019Pennington 88 High Road Chigwell Essex IG7 6PJ
Received 27 Feb 2019Pickerells Farm Dunmow Road Fyfield Ongar Essex CM5 0NP
Received 27 Feb 2019Thames Water Post Office SPS Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1BZ
Received 27 Feb 2019Cedar Lodge Church Lane Sheering Essex CM22 7NR
Received 28 Feb 20198 Kings Green Loughton IG10 1RJ
Received 28 Feb 2019Broadley End Farm Common Road Waltham Abbey EN9 2DF
Received 28 Feb 201944 Tycehurst Hill Loughton Essex IG10 1DA
Received 28 Feb 2019Fourways 22 Highland Road Nazeing Essex EN9 2PT
Received 28 Feb 2019Broad Oaks 34 High Road Chigwell Essex IG7 6DW
Received 1 Mar 20192 Beachett Cottages Mount Road Theydon Mount Epping Essex CM16 7PN
Received 28 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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