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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.
2,387 approved · 808 refused · 110 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 Promenade Mayland Chelmsford Essex CM3 6AR
Received 22 May 202311 Market Hill Maldon Essex CM9 4PZ
Received 23 May 2023Purleigh County Primary School Pump Lane Purleigh Chelmsford Essex CM3 6PJ
Received 23 May 2023Bobbets Hole Bakers Green Goldhanger Maldon Essex CM9 8LT
Received 23 May 2023Land Between Ash Cottage And High Prospect Top Road Woodham Walter Essex
Received 23 May 20238A Mill Road Mayland Essex
Received 24 May 202336 Park Drive Maldon Essex CM9 5JQ
Received 24 May 2023Pipeline Between Layer Water Treatment Works And Langford Waterworks Hatfield Road Langford Essex
Received 19 May 2023Village Hall Tiptree Road Great Braxted Witham Essex CM8 3EJ
Received 25 May 2023Josua 4 Silver Street Maldon Essex CM9 4QE
Received 25 May 2023Land At Broad Street Green Road And Langford Road And Maypole Road Great Totham Essex
Received 25 May 2023Ivy Fields Chelmsford Road Purleigh Chelmsford Essex CM3 6QP
Received 25 May 2023110 Fambridge Road Maldon Essex CM9 6BG
Received 26 May 2023Land At Tudor Cottage 22 High Street Bradwell-on-sea Essex
Received 23 May 2023Land Adjacent To Grange Cottage The Street Steeple Essex
Received 25 May 2023Purleigh Lodge Lodge Lane Purleigh Chelmsford Essex CM3 6PP
Received 26 May 2023Land Opposite St Margaret's Church Maldon Road Woodham Mortimer Maldon Essex CM9 6SN
Received 26 May 202325 Shakespeare Drive Maldon Essex CM9 6DP
Received 29 May 2023Almshouses Rectory Road Woodham Walter Essex
Received 30 May 2023Menagerie Manor 19 Sunny Way St Lawrence Southminster Essex CM0 7PA
Received 30 May 2023Hylands Rectory Road Tolleshunt Knights Maldon Essex CM9 8EZ
Received 30 May 2023Unit 1 Purleigh Wash Farm Fambridge Road Purleigh Essex
Received 31 May 2023Langmeil The Avenue North Fambridge Chelmsford Essex CM3 6LZ
Received 23 May 2023Land At 100 Mill Road Maldon Essex
Received 1 Jun 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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