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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.
15,090 approved · 4,320 refused · 950 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Pump Hill Loughton Essex IG10 1RT
Received 7 Mar 202267 Hemnall Street Epping Essex CM16 4LZ
Received 7 Mar 202231 Forest Glade North Weald Bassett Epping Essex CM16 6LD
Received 7 Mar 202241 Loughton Way Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6AS
Received 7 Mar 2022Langley 96 High Road Chigwell Essex IG7 6PJ
Received 7 Mar 202220 New Forest Lane Chigwell Essex IG7 5QN
Received 7 Mar 2022Grange Farm Centre High Road Chigwell IG7 6DP
Received 7 Mar 2022Land and Garages at Millfield High Ongar Ongar Essex CM5 9RJ
Received 7 Mar 2022Land and Garages accessed to the rear of 82 Alderton Hall Lane and to the rear of 139 Chequers Road Bushfields Loughton Essex IG10 3JR
Received 7 Mar 202225 Tomswood Road Chigwell Essex IG7 5QP
Received 7 Mar 202272 High Road Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5RP
Received 7 Mar 202214 Turners Close Ongar Essex CM5 9HH
Received 7 Mar 2022162 High Street, Ongar CM5 9JJ
Received 7 Mar 2022323 Civic Offices, Epping Forest District Council High Street Epping Essex CM16 4BZ
Received 7 Mar 2022Civic Offices, Conder Building and Car Park, 323 High Street, Epping, CM16 4BZ
Received 7 Mar 2022Lionheart Court 1 - 52 Formerly Tesco Stores Limited Sewardstone Road Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1NP
Received 7 Mar 2022Forest Lodge 1 Fairmeadside Loughton Essex IG10 4RH
Received 7 Mar 20228 Roding View Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6AQ
Received 7 Mar 2022Sheering War Memorial Junction The Street and Chuch Lane Sheering Essex CM22
Received 8 Mar 2022Orange Lodge Chambers Manor Farm Lane Epping Upland Epping CM16 6PL
Received 8 Mar 202277 Monksgrove Loughton Essex IG10 3LR
Received 8 Mar 20222 Theydon Meadows Stapleford Tawney Romford Essex RM4 1EY
Received 8 Mar 202225 Scotland Road Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 5NP
Received 8 Mar 2022Civic Offices, Condor Building 323 High Street Epping CM16 4BZ
Received 8 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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