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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Epping Forest District Council. Also known as EFDC.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Epping Forest website
37,272 approved · 9,532 refused · 2,952 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jul 1999 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Land east of Stonards Hill, Epping, Essex
Received 9 Dec 2025Little Gregories, Little Gregories Lane, Theydon Bois, Epping, CM16 7JP
Received 9 Dec 20252 Dawes Bridge Cottages, Hobbs Cross Road, Theydon Garnon, Epping, CM16 7PA
Received 9 Dec 2025Sparks Farm, Nine Ashes Road, Nine Ashes, Epping, CM4 0JZ
Received 10 Dec 202517, North End, Buckhurst Hill, IG9 5RA
Received 10 Dec 202513, Farm Hill Road, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1NE
Received 10 Dec 2025Saint Albans Church Hall, Coopersale Common, Coopersale, Epping, CM16 7QT
Received 10 Dec 2025Dillons Barn, Abbess Road, Abbess Beauchamp And Berners Roding, Ongar, CM5 0JJ
Received 10 Dec 20257, Dukes Avenue, Theydon Bois, Epping, CM16 7HG
Received 10 Dec 2025Lira, Mott Street, Waltham Abbey, E4 7RW
Received 10 Dec 202572, Bracken Drive, Chigwell, IG7 5RD
Received 10 Dec 2025Former Waltham Abbey Swimming Pool site, Roundhills, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1UP
Received 10 Dec 2025138, Trotwood, Chigwell, IG7 5JW
Received 11 Dec 20255, Woodland Way, Theydon Bois, Epping, CM16 7DY
Received 11 Dec 20259A, High Conifers, Lower Bury Lane, Epping, CM16 5HA
Received 11 Dec 2025Brooklyn Nursery, Mott Street, Waltham Abbey, E4 7RW
Received 11 Dec 2025Land At Stewarts Farm, School Road, Stanford Rivers, Ongar, CM5 9PT
Received 11 Dec 2025113, High Road, Buckhurst Hill, IG9 5SF
Received 4 Dec 202536, Highbridge Street, Waltham Abbey, EN9 1BS
Received 11 Dec 20259, Tomswood Road, Chigwell, IG7 5QP
Received 11 Dec 20257, SIMON CAMPION COURT, 232-234 HIGH STREET, EPPING, CM16 4AU
Received 11 Dec 202536, Spring Cottage, Lindsey Street, Epping, CM16 6RE
Received 12 Dec 202546, Rodney Road, Ongar, CM5 9HN
Received 12 Dec 2025BISHOPS HALL, New Road, Lambourne, Romford, RM4 1AJ
Received 12 Dec 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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