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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.
15,010 approved · 4,303 refused · 945 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Garages to north of Crows Road, Epping CM16
Received 21 Mar 2022High House Farm Stapleford Road Stapleford Abbotts Romford Essex RM4 1EJ
Received 18 Mar 2022Land and garages Millfield High Ongar
Received 21 Mar 202261 Pyrles Lane Loughton IG10 2NL
Received 21 Mar 2022Hunters Hall Farm Chambers Manor Farm Lane Epping Upland Epping Essex CM16 6PL
Received 1 Mar 202226 Walker Avenue Fyfield Ongar Essex CM5 0RG
Received 1 Mar 20225 Scrap Villas Hastingwood Road Hastingwood Harlow CM17 9JX
Received 1 Mar 202266 Newmans Lane Loughton IG10 1TH
Received 1 Mar 2022172 Honey Lane Waltham Abbey EN9 3BE
Received 1 Mar 2022Land to South of Nine Ashes Road Nine Ashes Ingatestone CM4 0JY
Received 2 Mar 2022R/O 39-56 Retreat Way Chigwell Essex IG7 6EL
Received 1 Mar 20229 All Saints Close Chigwell Essex IG7 6EG
Received 2 Mar 2022Hobbs View Moreton Road Ongar Essex CM5 0LX
Received 1 Mar 20228 Chigwell Park Drive Chigwell Essex IG7 5BD
Received 1 Mar 2022Broad Oaks 34 High Road Chigwell Essex IG7 6DW
Received 1 Mar 202223 Connaught Avenue Loughton Essex IG10 4DS
Received 2 Mar 202223 Cunningham Rise North Weald Bassett Epping Essex CM16 6JR
Received 2 Mar 2022Land adjacent to Tanfields Old House Lane Roydon CM19 5DN
Received 2 Mar 202277 York Hill Loughton Essex IG10 1HZ
Received 3 Mar 2022Chigwell Nursery, High Road, Chigwell, IG7 5BL
Received 2 Mar 20221 Tomswood Road Chigwell Essex IG7 5QP
Received 2 Mar 2022Garages at rear of numbers 62-72 Etheridge Road and at rear of 8-13 Etheridge Green Loughton Essex IG10 2HY
Received 3 Mar 2022Hemnall Social Club Hemnall Street Epping CM16 4LS
Received 3 Mar 2022164 Roding Road Loughton IG10 3BS
Received 3 Mar 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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