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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.
2,698 approved · 1,039 refused · 135 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Sherlock's Cafe 16 Maldon Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8NS
Received 11 Jun 2026Bunsay Downs Golf Club Little Baddow Road Woodham Walter Maldon Essex CM9 6RU
Received 11 Jun 2026Downs Lodge 21 Downs Road Maldon Essex CM9 5HG
Received 12 Jun 2026Land South Of Wycke Hill And Limebrook Way Maldon Essex
Received 12 Jun 2026Land South Of Wycke Hill And Limebrook Way Maldon Essex
Received 12 Jun 2026Gipsy Lodge 48 South Street Tillingham Southminster Essex CM0 7TH
Received 15 Jun 202611 Wellington Road Maldon Essex CM9 6HL
Received 16 Jun 2026Goings Wharf Colchester Road Heybridge Essex
Received 16 Jun 2026Suez Depot Parks Trading Unit Workshop The Depot The Promenade Park Park Drive Maldon Essex
Received 17 Jun 2026Maldon Crystal Salt Company Limited Saltworks At Longwick Farm Joyces Chase Tolleshunt Major Maldon Essex CM9 8AQ
Received 17 Jun 20262 Thalatta Close Maldon Essex CM9 6FP
Received 17 Jun 2026Land North West Of Maldon Hall Farm Spital Road Maldon Essex
Received 17 Jun 2026Brookside 38 Maldon Road Great Totham Maldon Essex CM9 8PR
Received 17 Jun 2026Tillingham Hall Farm North Street Tillingham Essex
Received 19 Jun 2026The Limes Bradwell Road Tillingham Southminster Essex CM0 7SS
Received 19 Jun 20263 Hardings Reach Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8LL
Received 17 Jun 2026Land South Of Long Wick Farm Joyces Chase Tolleshunt Major Essex
Received 19 Jun 2026Little Walnuts 67 Broad Street Green Road Great Totham Maldon Essex CM9 8NX
Received 22 Jun 2026Manythings 165 Station Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8HJ
Received 22 Jun 2026Windrush 32 Basin Road Heybridge Basin Maldon Essex CM9 4RQ
Received 22 Jun 2026Red Lyons House Burnham Road Latchingdon Chelmsford Essex CM3 6EY
Received 22 Jun 202619 Arcadia Road Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8EF
Received 23 Jun 2026The Co-operative Food Fiveways Foundry Lane Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CM0 8BL
Received 23 Jun 2026Land Adjacent 121 Heywood Way Heybridge Essex
Received 23 Jun 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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