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.
13,779 approved · 4,067 refused · 863 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 Tomswood Road Chigwell IG7 5QP
Received 16 Jul 201830 Great Meadow Nazeing Essex EN10 6RP
Received 16 Jul 201892 Crooked Mile Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1QN
Received 16 Jul 201852 Chigwell Rise Chigwell Essex IG7 6AG
Received 17 Jul 201826 Stanmore Way Loughton Essex IG10 2SA
Received 17 Jul 201883 Smarts Lane Loughton Essex IG10 4BP
Received 17 Jul 20183 Eleanor Terrace Epping Road Roydon Harlow CM19 5HN
Received 17 Jul 201860 Lechmere Avenue Chigwell Essex IG7 5ET
Received 17 Jul 201846 Russell Road Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5QE
Received 17 Jul 201843 Walnut Way Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6HU
Received 17 Jul 2018Sprays Bakery 154 High Road Loughton Essex IG10 4BE
Received 17 Jul 20187 Ardmore Lane Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5RY
Received 17 Jul 2018Haylands 48 High Road Chigwell Essex IG7 6DL
Received 17 Jul 2018Netherhouse Farm Sewardstone Road Waltham Abbey Essex E4 7RJ
Received 17 Jul 2018Forest House Woodside North Weald Epping Essex CM16 6LG
Received 17 Jul 2018Land adjacent 2, The Uplands, Loughton, IG10 1NH
Received 11 Dec 20201 Frayes Chase Abbess Beauchamp And Berners Roding Ongar CM5 0JX
Received 14 Dec 2020Former Eastbrook Hall Broomstick Hall Road Waltham Abbey
Received 11 Dec 2020Lascelles Matching Green Matching Harlow CM17 0PT
Received 11 Dec 202095 Old Nazeing Road Nazeing Waltham Abbey EN10 6RJ
Received 14 Dec 2020Land adjacent to 10 and 11 Higham View Rear of 98 High Road North Weald CM16 6DD
Received 14 Dec 202029 Forest Lane Chigwell IG7 5AF
Received 14 Dec 202018 Coopers Close Chigwell IG7 6EU
Received 15 Dec 202050 School Green Lane North Weald Bassett Epping CM16 6EJ
Received 14 Dec 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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