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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.
13,537 approved · 4,020 refused · 854 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Penistone Epping Road Roydon Harlow CM19 5DA
Received 25 May 2020Pennistone Epping Road Roydon Harlow CM19 5DA
Received 25 May 2020Pennistone Epping Road Roydon Harlow CM19 5DA
Received 25 May 2020Pennistone Epping Road Roydon Harlow CM19 5DA
Received 25 May 2020Highfield, 4 Beechview Drive (Plot 4) Waltham Abbey EN9 3UB
Received 25 May 2020Tadgells Barn Housham Tye Road Matching Harlow CM17 0NX
Received 22 May 2020Suttons Farm Tawney Lane Stapleford Tawney Essex RM4 1EE
Received 26 Jun 2019Suttons Farm Tawney Lane Stapleford Tawney Romford RM4 1EE
Received 22 May 2020Former Tottenham Hotspur Training Ground Luxborough Lane Chigwell Essex
Received 26 May 202030 Farm Way Buckhurst Hill IG9 5AH
Received 26 May 2020Gilden Way and Sheering Road Public Highways and Land Between Sheering Road and M11 Motorway
Received 22 May 2020Gilden Way and Sheering Road Public Highways and Land Between Sheering Road and M11 Motorway
Received 22 May 202012 A The Orchards Epping CM16 7BB
Received 26 May 2020172 Buckhurst Way Buckhurst Hill IG9 6HZ
Received 26 May 2020Smiths Brasserie Fyfield Road Ongar CM5 0AL
Received 26 May 20208 Buttercross Lane Epping CM16 5AA
Received 26 May 202010 Ely Place Chigwell IG8 8AG
Received 26 May 2020Berwick Hall Berwick Lane Abbess Beauchamp And Berners Roding Ongar CM5 0JS
Received 26 May 202028 Chigwell Grange High Road Chigwell IG7 6BF
Received 26 May 2020Leverton County Gm Junior And Infant School Honey Lane Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 3BE
Received 27 May 2020Penaj Hamlet Hill Roydon Harlow CM19 5JU
Received 27 May 2020Acorn Lodge 64B Bower Hill Epping CM16 7AN
Received 27 May 20205 Southernhay Loughton IG10 4EN
Received 27 May 2020Broad Oaks 34 High Road Chigwell IG7 6DW
Received 27 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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