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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2,398 approved · 815 refused · 110 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At 1 Staplers Heath Great Totham Essex
Received 10 Jul 2023Land At Broad Street Green Road And Langford Road And Maypole Road Great Totham Essex
Received 10 Jul 2023Grove Farm Ashfield Farm Road Ulting Maldon Essex CM9 6QP
Received 11 Jul 20232 The Chase Tollesbury Maldon Essex CM9 8QH
Received 11 Jul 2023Apple Barn Maldon Road Tiptree Colchester Essex CO5 0QA
Received 11 Jul 2023Mansion House Residential Home Burnham Road Althorne Chelmsford Essex CM3 6DR
Received 11 Jul 2023Former Whistlers The Street Purleigh Chelmsford Essex CM3 6QJ
Received 12 Jul 20231 Wallace Binder Close Maldon Essex CM9 6LG
Received 12 Jul 20234 Granger Avenue Maldon Essex CM9 6AN
Received 12 Jul 2023Land Rear Of 148 Station Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex
Received 12 Jul 20236 Wooldridge Place Wickham Bishops Witham Essex CM8 3LW
Received 13 Jul 2023Communication Station Mast (MBNL 93743) Impact House Springfield Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex
Received 13 Jul 2023Collingwood House 37 South Street Tillingham Southminster Essex CM0 7TJ
Received 13 Jul 2023Fellowship Afloat Charity Trust Yacht Store D Woodrolfe Road Tollesbury Maldon Essex CM9 8SE
Received 13 Jul 2023Land North West Of 2 Maldon Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex
Received 13 Jul 2023Fellowship Afloat Charity Trust Yacht Store D Woodrolfe Road Tollesbury Maldon Essex CM9 8SE
Received 13 Jul 2023Land Adjacent 3 Benbridge Close Heybridge Essex
Received 13 Jul 2023Land At Chasefield Farm 64 Walden House Road Great Totham Essex
Received 13 Jul 2023Land South West Of Lower Farm Blind Lane Tolleshunt Knights Essex
Received 13 Jul 20231 Whitehouse Cottages Blue Mill Lane Woodham Walter Maldon Essex CM9 6LR
Received 14 Jul 2023Harmony Kennels Brook House Spar Lane Purleigh Chelmsford Essex CM3 6QW
Received 14 Jul 2023Almshouses Rectory Road Woodham Walter Essex
Received 17 Jul 202324 Broad Street Green Road Heybridge Maldon Essex CM9 8PD
Received 17 Jul 2023Manythings 165 Station Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8HJ
Received 17 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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