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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.
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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Maldon District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
2,425 approved · 843 refused · 114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Of Langford Bridge Maldon Road Langford Essex
Received 5 Sept 2023The Cottage Bassetts Lane Little Baddow Chelmsford Essex CM3 4BZ
Received 6 Sept 2023Minster House 29 Burnham Road Southminster Essex CM0 7ES
Received 6 Sept 2023Chase End The Downs Maldon Essex CM9 5HR
Received 4 Sept 202325 Chapel Road Tolleshunt D'Arcy Maldon Essex CM9 8TL
Received 6 Sept 20239 Mermaid Way Maldon Essex CM9 5LA
Received 6 Sept 202367 South Street Tillingham Southminster Essex CM0 7TH
Received 4 Sept 2023Larretts Green Lane Latchingdon Essex
Received 7 Sept 202328 Virley Close Heybridge Essex CM9 4YS
Received 7 Sept 2023Land At Garlands Farm Tollesbury Road Tollesbury Essex
Received 7 Sept 2023Assumption Of Our Lady Roman Catholic Church Victoria Road Maldon Essex CM9 5HF
Received 7 Sept 20235 St Georges Close Heybridge Basin Maldon Essex CM9 4RZ
Received 7 Sept 2023Land At Blackwater Trading Estate The Causeway Maldon Essex
Received 7 Sept 20238 Kittiwake Drive Heybridge Maldon CM9 4TN
Received 8 Sept 20237 Silver Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8LA
Received 8 Sept 2023Klaxons Balmoral Road Mayland Chelmsford Essex CM3 6TE
Received 8 Sept 2023The Barn Braxted Park Road Tiptree Colchester Essex CO5 0QB
Received 7 Sept 2023Land Adjacent To Grange Cottage The Street Steeple Essex
Received 5 Sept 2023Ockleys Maypole Road Wickham Bishops Witham Essex CM8 3NW
Received 8 Sept 2023Ockleys Maypole Road Wickham Bishops Witham Essex CM8 3NW
Received 8 Sept 2023The Bungalow 1 Riverside Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8JY
Received 8 Sept 2023Sky High Hagg Hill Cold Norton Chelmsford Essex CM3 6GW
Received 8 Sept 2023Rolls Farm 3 Prentice Hall Lane Tollesbury Maldon Essex CM9 8RW
Received 11 Sept 202325 Roman Way Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8UE
Received 11 Sept 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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