Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
2,482 approved · 899 refused · 119 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Cottage 25 Burnham Road Southminster Essex CM0 7ES
Received 23 Sept 2024Clive Beardall Antiques 104B High Street Maldon Essex CM9 5ET
Received 23 Sept 2024Land North Of Latchingdon Bowls Club Burnham Road Latchingdon Essex
Received 23 Sept 2024Land Opposite Drapers Farm Drapers Chase Heybridge Essex
Received 24 Sept 20241 D'Arcy Way Tolleshunt D'Arcy Maldon Essex CM9 8UD
Received 24 Sept 2024Oxley Cottage 1 Oxley Hill Tolleshunt D'Arcy Essex
Received 24 Sept 2024Land At Springside School Road Little Totham Essex
Received 24 Sept 20241 Appleberry Place Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8QN
Received 25 Sept 2024Maypole House North Street Tolleshunt D'Arcy Maldon Essex CM9 8TF
Received 24 Sept 2024141 Heywood Way Heybridge Maldon Essex CM9 4BJ
Received 25 Sept 2024The Folly Mope Lane Wickham Bishops Witham Essex CM8 3JP
Received 25 Sept 2024St Francis Post Office Road Woodham Mortimer Maldon Essex CM9 6ST
Received 25 Sept 202425 Queenborough Road Southminster Essex CM0 7AB
Received 26 Sept 20249 Prince Of Wales Road Great Totham Maldon Essex CM9 8PX
Received 26 Sept 202481A High Street Maldon Essex CM9 5EP
Received 26 Sept 2024Land At Broad Street Green Road And Langford Road And Maypole Road Great Totham Essex
Received 26 Sept 2024The Lilacs Hackmans Lane Cock Clarks Chelmsford Essex CM3 6RE
Received 26 Sept 20243 Thrumble Close Mayland Chelmsford Essex CM3 6FG
Received 27 Sept 2024Limbourne Park Lodge Main Road Mundon Maldon Essex CM9 6NU
Received 27 Sept 2024Pine Trees The Street Wickham Bishops Witham Essex CM8 3NN
Received 25 Sept 2024Cattolica 23 Burnham Road Southminster Essex CM0 7ES
Received 27 Sept 2024Tree Maintenance Along Dorset Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex
Received 27 Sept 2024Land Adjacent 30 Conduit Lane Woodham Mortimer Essex
Received 27 Sept 2024Lawson Place Kelvedon Road Great Totham Essex
Received 30 Sept 2024Records 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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