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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.
2,434 approved · 846 refused · 114 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Apr 2021 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
New Site At Former Mill Beach Goldhanger Road Heybridge Essex
Received 11 Sept 202311 Wellington Road Maldon Essex CM9 6HL
Received 11 Sept 2023Land Adjacent To Oaklands Kelvedon Road Great Totham Essex
Received 11 Sept 2023Purleigh Wash Farm Fambridge Road Purleigh Essex
Received 11 Sept 2023Totham Hill House 1 Totham Hill Green Great Totham Maldon Essex CM9 8DX
Received 11 Sept 20237 Kelvedon Road Tolleshunt D'Arcy Maldon Essex CM9 8TE
Received 12 Sept 2023Little House 8 Witham Road Wickham Bishops Witham Essex CM8 3NQ
Received 12 Sept 2023Parsonage Wood Farm Rectory Lane Woodham Mortimer Maldon Essex CM9 6SW
Received 11 Sept 2023The Cottage Bassetts Lane Little Baddow Chelmsford Essex CM3 4BZ
Received 13 Sept 202316A Mill Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8PZ
Received 13 Sept 2023Land North Of Latchingdon Bowls Club Burnham Road Latchingdon Essex
Received 13 Sept 2023Heybridge Co-Operative Academy Colchester Road Heybridge Essex
Received 14 Sept 202312 Church Street Tollesbury Maldon Essex CM9 8QJ
Received 29 Aug 2023Ruby's Rest Station Approach North Fambridge Chelmsford Essex CM3 6NE
Received 14 Sept 2023Land Adjacent The Old Forge And Thornley Cottage Burnham Road Althorne Essex
Received 15 Sept 2023Wellside Nurseries Tudwick Road Tolleshunt D'Arcy Essex
Received 15 Sept 2023The Memorial Hall High Street Southminster Essex CM0 7DE
Received 13 Sept 2023Papa Johns 68 High Street Maldon Essex CM9 5YH
Received 15 Sept 20232 Bower Gardens Maldon Essex CM9 6HJ
Received 18 Sept 2023105 High Street Maldon Essex CM9 5EP
Received 19 Sept 202312 Church Street Tollesbury Maldon Essex CM9 8QJ
Received 29 Aug 2023Land At White House Ferry Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex
Received 19 Sept 2023Oronsay Ferry Road North Fambridge Chelmsford Essex CM3 6LS
Received 19 Sept 2023Trym Cottage 86 Maldon Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8NP
Received 20 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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