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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
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
37,446 approved · 9,561 refused · 2,961 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
86, Southern Drive, Loughton, IG10 3BX
Received 22 Dec 20251-23 St. Winifreds Close, Chigwell, IG7 5PU
Received 22 Dec 2025Stapleford Hall, Stapleford Road, Stapleford Abbotts, Romford, RM4 1EJ
Received 18 Dec 2025Herons Farm, Herons Lane, Fyfield, Ongar, CM5 0RQ
Received 22 Dec 2025Stapleford Hall, Stapleford Road, Stapleford Abbotts, Romford, RM4 1EJ
Received 18 Dec 2025Fairmead Plots 3 & 4 , Church Road, Loughton, IG10 4AJ
Received 22 Dec 2025The Barn, Epping Lane, Stapleford Tawney, Romford, RM4 1ST
Received 18 Dec 2025Battles Hall, Hook Lane, Stapleford Abbotts, Romford, RM4 1EP
Received 18 Dec 202581, Christies, High Road, Chigwell, IG7 6DP
Received 22 Dec 202561, Upper Clapton Rugby Football Club, Upland Road, Epping Upland, Epping, CM16 6NL
Received 22 Dec 2025Firs House, Moreton Road, Bobbingworth, Ongar, CM5 0LU
Received 22 Dec 2025Firs House, Moreton Road, Bobbingworth, Ongar, CM5 0LU
Received 22 Dec 2025Maybanks Farm, Epping Road, Ongar, CM5 9SQ
Received 22 Dec 2025161, Old Nazeing Road, Nazeing, Waltham Abbey, EN10 6QT
Received 22 Dec 2025Stewarts Farm House, School Road, Stanford Rivers, Ongar, CM5 9PT
Received 22 Dec 20251 Perrys Chase, Chase Lodge, Greensted Road, Ongar, CM5 9LA
Received 23 Dec 202559, Lechmere Avenue, Chigwell, IG7 5HA
Received 23 Dec 202522, Murrells Farm, London Road, Stanford Rivers, Ongar, CM5 9QE
Received 23 Dec 2025Civic Offices, Conder Building and Car Park, 323 High Street, Epping, CM16 4BZ
Received 23 Dec 2025Civic Offices Conder Building and Car Park 323 High Street Epping CM16 4BZ
Received 23 Dec 202589, Oakwood Hill, Loughton, IG10 3ER
Received 23 Dec 2025Civic Offices Conder Building and Car Park 323 High Street Epping CM16 4BZ
Received 23 Dec 2025Garages 201,202,203 Valley Close, Loughton, IG10 3AB
Received 23 Dec 2025Civic Offices, Conder Building and Car Park, 323 High Street, Epping, CM16 4BZ
Received 23 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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