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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.
15,128 approved · 4,327 refused · 953 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Fairmead 48 Church Lane Loughton Essex IG10 1PD
Received 8 Mar 2022Highway tree in Bracken Drive, adjacent to 1 Glenside Chigwell Essex IG7 5RE
Received 8 Mar 202211 Cornmill Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1RB
Received 8 Mar 202262 Church Lane Loughton Essex IG10 1NT
Received 8 Mar 202295 Tycehurst Hill Loughton IG10 1BZ
Received 8 Mar 202238 Queens Road Buckhurst Hill IG9 5BY
Received 8 Mar 2022The Firs 191 High Road Chigwell Essex IG7 5AS
Received 10 Mar 202231 Hycliffe Gardens Chigwell Essex IG7 5HJ
Received 9 Mar 202231 Hycliffe Gardens Chigwell Essex IG7 5HJ
Received 9 Mar 20222 Courtland Drive Chigwell Essex IG7 6PN
Received 9 Mar 202213 Roding Lane Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6BJ
Received 9 Mar 202266 Newmans Lane Loughton Essex IG10 1TH
Received 9 Mar 2022Long Meadow Low Hill Road Roydon Harlow CM19 5JN
Received 9 Mar 2022172 Honey Lane Waltham Abbey EN9 3BE
Received 10 Mar 2022Rundells Lodge London Road Hastingwood Harlow Essex CM17 9LH
Received 10 Mar 20225 Rayfield Epping Essex CM16 5AB
Received 10 Mar 202234 Millsmead Way Loughton Essex IG10 1LR
Received 10 Mar 20228 Parkside Harlow Road Matching Tye Harlow Essex CM17 0QW
Received 10 Mar 202231 Manor Road Chigwell Essex IG7 5PL
Received 10 Mar 202256 Lechmere Avenue Chigwell Essex IG7 5ET
Received 10 Mar 202216 Oakwood Hill Loughton Essex IG10 3EW
Received 10 Mar 2022Maxens Yard, Galley Hill Road, Waltham Abbey EN9 2AG
Received 10 Mar 202290 Loughton Way Buckhurst Hill Essex IG9 6AH
Received 10 Mar 202214 Morgan Crescent Theydon Bois Epping CM16 7DX
Received 10 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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