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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.
13,151 approved · 3,954 refused · 823 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Maple Close Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6HW
Received 4 Mar 2019White House Hoe Lane Nazeing Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 2RG
Received 4 Mar 20193 The Manor House Avey Lane High Beach Loughton Essex IG10 4AB
Received 4 Mar 2019Piggotts Farmhouse Abridge Road Abridge Essex RM4 1TX
Received 4 Mar 201920 Wellfields Loughton Essex IG10 1NX
Received 4 Mar 2019Cowicks Oast House Hatfield Heath Road Sheering Essex CM21 9HX
Received 4 Mar 201916 Forest Edge Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5AA
Received 4 Mar 201948 Station Road Loughton Essex IG10 4NX
Received 4 Mar 201931 Gravel Lane Chigwell Essex IG7 6DA
Received 4 Mar 2019The Dower House Harlow Road High Laver Ongar Essex CM5 0DT
Received 4 Mar 2019120 Southern Drive Loughton Essex IG10 3BY
Received 4 Mar 20194 Hanson Close Loughton Essex IG10 2EE
Received 4 Mar 2019Thistle Dew Hoe Lane Nazeing Essex EN9 2RN
Received 4 Mar 2019Woodend Barn Woodend Lane Abbess Beauchamp And Berners Roding Ongar Essex CM5 0NU
Received 4 Mar 2019Harts Cottage Debden Road Loughton Essex IG10 2NY
Received 4 Mar 2019Piggotts Farmhouse Abridge Road Abridge Essex RM4 1TX
Received 4 Mar 201938 Colson Road Loughton Essex IG10 3RJ
Received 5 Mar 201935 Mount Pleasant Road Chigwell Essex IG7 5EP
Received 5 Mar 201969 Hemnall Street Epping Essex CM16 4LZ
Received 5 Mar 201925 Great Meadow Nazeing Essex EN10 6RP
Received 5 Mar 2019The Sultan PH Sewardstone Road Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1HG
Received 5 Mar 2019Berners Hall Farm Berners Roding Road Abbess Beauchamp And Berners Roding Ongar Essex CM5 0TB
Received 6 Mar 2019Sawkins Farm Mount End Theydon Mount Epping Essex CM16 7PS
Received 6 Mar 20194 Station Road Epping Essex CM16 4HA
Received 6 Mar 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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