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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.
2,691 approved · 1,033 refused · 134 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2020 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 The Groves Burnham Road Latchingdon Essex
Received 5 Feb 2026Land North Of The Groves Burnham Road Latchingdon Essex
Received 5 Feb 2026Land North Of The Groves Burnham Road Latchingdon Essex
Received 5 Feb 2026Land North Of The Groves Burnham Road Latchingdon Essex
Received 5 Feb 2026The White Horse 26 High Street Maldon Essex CM9 5PJ
Received 5 Feb 2026The White Horse 26 High Street Maldon Essex CM9 5PJ
Received 5 Feb 2026Little Oaks Residential Home Braxted Road Little Braxted Witham Essex CM8 3JY
Received 6 Feb 2026The Shrubbery Curling Tye Lane Woodham Walter Maldon Essex CM9 6LT
Received 6 Feb 2026The Shrubbery Curling Tye Lane Woodham Walter Maldon Essex CM9 6LT
Received 6 Feb 2026Outbuilding At Stock Hall Farm Hatfield Road Ulting Essex
Received 9 Feb 2026Brookhead Farm Maldon Road Woodham Mortimer Maldon Essex CM9 6GP
Received 9 Feb 20263 The Paddocks Stoney Hills Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8QA
Received 9 Feb 2026Land North Of Grange Road Tillingham Essex
Received 6 Feb 2026Elms Barn Maldon Road Ulting Maldon Essex CM9 6QF
Received 9 Feb 2026Elms Barn Maldon Road Ulting Maldon Essex CM9 6QF
Received 9 Feb 20262 Emneth Acre Maldon Essex CM9 6EY
Received 9 Feb 20269 Blacksmiths Lane Wickham Bishops Witham Essex CM8 3NR
Received 2 Feb 2026Land North And West Of Knowles Farm Wycke Hill Maldon Essex
Received 11 Feb 2026Maldon Motel Limited First Floor And Rear Of 154 High Street Maldon Essex CM9 5BX
Received 11 Feb 2026Home Fields Steeple Road Latchingdon Chelmsford Essex CM3 6LD
Received 11 Feb 2026Ancillary Annexe At 46 Mountview Crescent St Lawrence Essex
Received 11 Feb 2026Land North Of Heybridge Swifts Football Club Scraley Road Great Totham Essex
Received 11 Feb 2026Land At Down Westwick Waterside Road Bradwell-On-Sea Essex
Received 11 Feb 2026Land At Down Westwick Waterside Road Bradwell-On-Sea Essex
Received 11 Feb 2026Records 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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