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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 Maldon District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
2,356 approved · 796 refused · 110 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Feb 2022 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
84 Nipsells Chase Mayland Chelmsford Essex CM3 6EJ
Received 21 Feb 2023Land West Of Crown Road Cold Norton Essex
Received 28 Feb 2023Proposed Outbuilding South Side Of Plains Road Great Totham Essex
Received 28 Feb 2023Land At Broad Street Green Road And Langford Road And Maypole Road Great Totham Essex
Received 1 Mar 2023Hall Farm Land At 583941 203977 Hazeleigh Hall Lane Hazeleigh Essex
Received 2 Mar 2023Land North Of 48 Woodrolfe Road Tollesbury Essex
Received 2 Mar 202361 Spital Road Maldon Essex CM9 6EA
Received 2 Mar 2023Land North Of Poplar Grove Chase Great Totham Essex
Received 2 Mar 20235 Falkland Green Post Office Road Woodham Mortimer Maldon Essex CM9 6SU
Received 2 Mar 2023Halifax 52A High Street Maldon Essex CM9 5UJ
Received 3 Mar 2023Halifax 52A High Street Maldon Essex CM9 5UJ
Received 3 Mar 202331 Foster Road Great Totham Maldon Essex CM9 8PZ
Received 3 Mar 202322 Park Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8ES
Received 6 Mar 2023Hyside Motorcycles Unit 9 Wycke Hill Business Park Maldon Essex CM9 6UZ
Received 6 Mar 202348 Maldon Road Great Totham Maldon Essex CM9 8NL
Received 6 Mar 2023The Cottage Bassetts Lane Little Baddow Chelmsford Essex CM3 4BZ
Received 6 Mar 2023227 Fambridge Road Maldon Essex CM9 6BJ
Received 6 Mar 2023Hall Farm Land At 583941 203977 Hazeleigh Hall Lane Hazeleigh Essex
Received 6 Mar 202353 Orchard Road Maldon Essex CM9 6EW
Received 27 Feb 2023Start Of Langford Waterpipe Barnhall Road Tolleshunt Knights Essex
Received 2 Mar 2023Whitehaven 3 Garlands Bungalow Mundon Road Mundon Maldon Essex CM9 6PL
Received 7 Mar 2023Mardi Gras Chapel Road Tolleshunt D'arcy Maldon Essex CM9 8TL
Received 7 Mar 2023Land To The South Of Keelings Road Dengie Essex
Received 7 Mar 2023Boarded Barn Spital Road Maldon Essex
Received 8 Mar 2023Records 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 Maldon 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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