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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.
2,377 approved · 802 refused · 110 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Colonsay Seaview Parade St Lawrence Southminster Essex CM0 7PB
Received 5 Apr 2023Inconel Cold Norton Road Purleigh Essex
Received 5 Apr 2023Rolls Farm 3 Prentice Hall Lane Tollesbury Maldon Essex CM9 8RW
Received 6 Apr 2023Rolls Farm 3 Prentice Hall Lane Tollesbury Maldon Essex CM9 8RW
Received 6 Apr 2023Workshop Goodhares Farm Burnham Road Latchingdon Chelmsford Essex CM3 6EY
Received 6 Apr 2023North Mead Maldon Road Bradwell-On-Sea Southminster Essex CM0 7HX
Received 6 Apr 2023Little Grange Rushes Lane Asheldham Southminster Essex CM0 7NY
Received 6 Apr 2023Sky High Hagg Hill Cold Norton Chelmsford Essex CM3 6GW
Received 6 Apr 2023Heybridge Mill House Anchor Lane Heybridge Maldon Essex CM9 4LS
Received 11 Apr 202324 Providence Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8JU
Received 11 Apr 2023Abbotts Wood 26 Beacon Hill Wickham Bishops Witham Essex CM8 3EA
Received 11 Apr 2023Land At 7 Mill Road Mayland Essex
Received 11 Apr 2023Lower Farm Blind Lane Tolleshunt Knights Maldon Essex CM9 8EP
Received 11 Apr 2023Land At Station Industrial Estate Station Approach Burnham-On-Crouch Essex
Received 11 Apr 2023Colonsay Seaview Parade St Lawrence Southminster Essex CM0 7PB
Received 11 Apr 2023Land North Of 48 Woodrolfe Road Tollesbury Essex
Received 12 Apr 2023Land North Of 48 Woodrolfe Road Tollesbury Essex
Received 12 Apr 2023112 Maldon Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8DB
Received 12 Apr 2023Saffron Cottage Witham Road Tolleshunt Major Maldon Essex CM9 8JT
Received 12 Apr 2023Heath Cottage Old Heath Road Southminster Essex CM0 7BN
Received 12 Apr 2023Land At Hylands Rectory Road Tolleshunt Knights Essex
Received 12 Apr 2023The Old Scout Hut Rear Of 1 Chapel Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex
Received 6 Apr 20231 Freshwater Crescent Heybridge Maldon Essex CM9 4PA
Received 12 Apr 2023Land At Broad Street Green Road And Langford Road And Maypole Road Great Totham Essex
Received 12 Apr 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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