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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.
14,928 approved · 4,283 refused · 943 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jul 1999 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
77-79 High Street Epping Essex CM16 4BA
Received 22 Feb 2022Former Chimes Garden Centre and Nazebourne (no. 93) Old Nazeing Road Nazeing Essex EN10 6RJ
Received 23 Feb 202228 Greensted Road Loughton Essex IG10 3DL
Received 22 Feb 2022Willow Park Farm Millers Lane Chigwell Essex IG7 6DG
Received 22 Feb 2022Former Playing Fields Epping Forest College Borders Lane Loughton IG10 3SA
Received 22 Feb 202294 Coopersale Common Coopersale Epping Essex CM16 7QU
Received 22 Feb 202276 and 78 Back Lane Sheering Harlow Essex CM22 7NG
Received 22 Feb 202234 Bower Hill Epping Essex CM16 7AL
Received 22 Feb 2022Brook Cottage 60 Weald Hall Lane Thornwood Epping Essex CM16 6NB
Received 23 Feb 20227 Broadfield Way Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5AG
Received 18 Feb 202210 King George Way Waltham Abbey Essex E4 7FN
Received 23 Feb 2022Former Playing Fields Epping Forest College Borders Lane Loughton IG10 3SA
Received 23 Feb 20226 Crooked Mile Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1PS
Received 23 Feb 202237 Luxford Place Sheering Harlow Essex CM21 9JB
Received 23 Feb 202220 Morgan Crescent Theydon Bois Epping Essex CM16 7DX
Received 23 Feb 202280 Algers Road Loughton Essex IG10 4ND
Received 24 Feb 2022Former Playing Fields Epping Forest College Borders Lane Loughton IG10 3SA
Received 24 Feb 202216 Park Hill Loughton Essex IG10 4ES
Received 24 Feb 202249 Broomstick Hall Road Waltham Abbey EN9 1LN
Received 24 Feb 202249 Beamish Close North Weald Bassett Epping Essex CM16 6JW
Received 24 Feb 2022Cornerways Turpins Lane Chighwell
Received 24 Feb 20229 Lucton Mews Loughton IG10 3PE
Received 25 Feb 20224 Marks Avenue Ongar CM5 9AY
Received 25 Feb 202240 Hainault Road Chigwell Essex IG7 6QX
Received 25 Feb 2022Records 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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