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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.
2,398 approved · 815 refused · 110 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 St Georges Close Heybridge Basin Maldon Essex CM9 4RZ
Received 26 Jun 2023Ruby's Rest Station Approach North Fambridge Chelmsford Essex CM3 6NE
Received 27 Jun 202319 Church Green Wickham Bishops Witham Essex CM8 3JX
Received 27 Jun 2023117 Woodfield Cottages Heybridge Maldon Essex CM9 4BQ
Received 27 Jun 2023117 Woodfield Cottages Heybridge Maldon Essex CM9 4BQ
Received 27 Jun 2023Tideways 9 Basin Road Heybridge Basin Maldon Essex CM9 4RQ
Received 27 Jun 2023Land Adjacent To Delta Nursery Mill Road Mayland Essex
Received 27 Jun 2023All Saints Vicarage Church Walk Maldon Essex CM9 4PY
Received 27 Jun 2023Marine View Waterside Road Bradwell-On-Sea Southminster Essex CM0 7QT
Received 28 Jun 2023Maldon Court Preparatory School 10 Silver Street Maldon Essex CM9 4QE
Received 20 Jun 2023Limes Lodge Burnham Road Althorne Chelmsford Essex CM3 6BT
Received 28 Jun 2023Purleigh Wash Farm Fambridge Road Purleigh Essex
Received 28 Jun 2023Land East Of Broad Street Green Road Heybridge Essex
Received 28 Jun 2023Land North Of Heybridge Swifts Football Club Scraley Road Great Totham Essex
Received 28 Jun 2023Leanna House Lock Hill Heybridge Basin Essex
Received 29 Jun 2023Coach House High Hall Church Road Wickham Bishops Witham Essex CM8 3JZ
Received 28 Jun 2023Land North West Of Beckingham Business Park Beckingham Street Tolleshunt Major Essex
Received 29 Jun 2023Land At Junction Of Steeple Road And Mill Road Mayland Essex
Received 30 Jun 2023They Love It Limited Unit 4 Galliford Road Industrial Estate Galliford Road Maldon Essex CM9 4XD
Received 30 Jun 2023119B High Street Maldon Essex CM9 5BS
Received 3 Jul 202333 Wentworth Meadows Maldon Essex CM9 6EH
Received 3 Jul 202352 Coopers Avenue Heybridge Maldon Essex CM9 4YX
Received 3 Jul 202347 West Street Tollesbury Maldon Essex CM9 8RJ
Received 3 Jul 2023Heybridge Co-Operative Academy Colchester Road Heybridge Essex
Received 3 Jul 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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