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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.
2,390 approved · 809 refused · 110 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land North North West Of Fernbrook Hall Mope Lane Wickham Bishops Essex
Received 6 Jun 2023Beavis Hall Hatfield Road Langford Essex
Received 6 Jun 2023Beavis Hall Hatfield Road Langford Essex
Received 6 Jun 2023Willow Cottage Vicarage Lane Tillingham Southminster Essex CM0 7TW
Received 7 Jun 2023The General Stores Maldon Road Langford Maldon Essex CM9 4SS
Received 7 Jun 2023The General Stores Maldon Road Langford Maldon Essex CM9 4SS
Received 7 Jun 2023Hall Meadows Hall Road Asheldham Southminster Essex CM0 7JF
Received 7 Jun 2023Land Rear Of Mill Farm Stoney Hills Burnham-On-Crouch Essex
Received 7 Jun 202349 North Road Tollesbury Maldon Essex CM9 8RQ
Received 7 Jun 2023Land Rear Of Masonic Hall Cromwell Hill Maldon Essex
Received 8 Jun 202311 Orchard Close Tollesbury Maldon Essex CM9 8TD
Received 8 Jun 202353 The Glebe Purleigh Chelmsford Essex CM3 6PE
Received 8 Jun 2023Land At Asheldham Grange Barn Rushes Lane Asheldham Essex
Received 8 Jun 2023Parsonage Wood Farm Rectory Lane Woodham Mortimer Maldon Essex CM9 6SW
Received 6 Jun 2023Little Wood 37 Colchester Road Great Totham Maldon Essex CM9 8DG
Received 8 Jun 20232 Church Close Wickham Bishops Witham Essex CM8 3LN
Received 7 Jun 2023Oakside Hackmans Lane Purleigh Chelmsford Essex CM3 6RJ
Received 8 Jun 2023Highview House Sea View Promenade St Lawrence Southminster Essex CM0 7NE
Received 9 Jun 2023Unit 3 The Old Ironworks Fullbridge Maldon Essex CM9 4LE
Received 9 Jun 2023Land To Rear Of Springwood Rectory Lane Latchingdon Essex
Received 9 Jun 202384 Fambridge Road Maldon Essex CM9 6AF
Received 12 Jun 202337 Brompton Gardens Maldon Essex CM9 6YU
Received 12 Jun 2023Cartlodge Outbuilding Attached To South West Of Barn Reddings Farm Reddings Lane Tillingham Essex
Received 8 Jun 2023Horseshoes 12 Totham Hill Green Great Totham Maldon Essex CM9 8DX
Received 12 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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