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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.
13,073 approved · 3,947 refused · 816 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 Rochford Avenue Waltham Abbey EN9 1SE
Received 19 May 2020Conquest House Church Street Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1DX
Received 20 May 202056 Baldwins Hill Loughton Essex IG10 1SF
Received 20 May 2020Forest Place Roebuck Lane Buckhurst Hill IG9 5QL
Received 20 May 2020Oakleigh House Hamlet Hill Roydon Harlow CM19 5JZ
Received 20 May 2020Roding Valley High School Alderton Hill Loughton IG10 3JA
Received 20 May 2020Rolls Park, Rolls House High Road Chigwell IG7 6DJ
Received 20 May 20205 Beech Place Epping CM16 5EJ
Received 20 May 2020174 Crooked Mile Waltham Abbey EN9 2ES
Received 20 May 2020The Old Dairy Murrells Farm 22 London Road Stanford Rivers Ongar CM5 9QE
Received 20 May 20203 Highfield Place Epping CM16 4DP
Received 20 May 2020Mill House Matching Road Matching Harlow CM22 7AS
Received 20 May 20206 Fairbank Close Ongar CM5 9HX
Received 20 May 2020Mill House Matching Road Matching Harlow CM22 7AS
Received 21 May 2020Gilden Way and Sheering Road Public Highways and Land Between Sheering Road and M11 Motorway
Received 21 May 2020Gilden Way and Sheering Road Public Highways and Land Between Sheering Road and M11 Motorway
Received 21 May 2020Gilden Way and Sheering Road Public Highways and Land Between Sheering Road and M11 Motorway
Received 21 May 2020Rimrock Kendal Avenue Epping CM16 4PL
Received 21 May 2020The Steers Pigstye Green Road Willingale Ongar Essex CM5 0QF
Received 21 May 202025 Fallow Fields Loughton Essex IG10 4QP
Received 21 May 2020Gilden Way and Sheering Road Public Highways and Land Between Sheering Road and M11 Motorway
Received 21 May 2020Sakins 142 High Street Roydon Harlow CM19 5EF
Received 21 May 2020Taylor Piggerie Lippitts Hill Loughton IG10 4AL
Received 21 May 2020Hornbeam 11 Woodbury Hill Loughton IG10 1JB
Received 21 May 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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