East of England
Epping Forest District Council planning intelligence
Local Plan stage, adopted plan, plan period and published housing position for Epping Forest District Council, read from the national planning data platform on 20/09/2026.
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Local Plan stage
Regulation 18 — issues and options consultation
Sites can normally still be submitted and allocated.
Five-year supply
5.0years
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets
Housing Delivery Test
66%
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets
Annual housing requirement
518homes pa
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets
Plan-making and delivery position
How favourable is this authority's position for promoting land right now?
- Local Plan progressRegulation 18 — issues and options consultation
The first formal consultation. The authority is asking what the plan should cover and which broad locations should grow. Site options are still open.
- Five-year housing land supply5.0 years
At or above the five-year requirement on the published position.
- Housing Delivery Test66% delivered
Below 75% — the presumption in favour of sustainable development applies.
- Evidence coverage held100%
3 planning documents indexed for this authority.
What does this mean?
Read the plan stage first: allocation routes narrow considerably once a plan reaches examination.
Local Plan stage
Regulation 18 — issues and options consultation
The first formal consultation. The authority is asking what the plan should cover and which broad locations should grow. Site options are still open.
Submitting land: Sites can normally still be submitted and allocated.
Published position
- Local Plan stage
- Regulation 18 — issues and options consultation
- Adopted development plan
- Epping Forest District Local Plan 2011-2033
- Emerging Local Plan
- Epping Forest District Draft Local Plan 2016
- Plan period
- 2011 to 2033
- Housing figure in the plan document
- 11,400 homes
- Annual housing requirement
- 518 homes a year
- Five-year housing land supply
- 5 years
- Housing Delivery Test
- 66%
- Plan documents held nationally
- 3
The first formal consultation. The authority is asking what the plan should cover and which broad locations should grow. Site options are still open.
Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence) · dated 2023-03-06
Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence) · dated 2023-03-06
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets · dated 2011-03-31
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets · dated 2011-03-31
Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets · dated 2026-08-17
Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence)
Where a figure has not been published in our sources it is shown as data currently unavailable. It is never inferred or estimated.
Development pressure & opportunity outlook
A 0-100 index of how much pressure Epping Forest District Council is under to release new land, built only from published evidence, followed by what that evidence means for promoting land here over the next 12-24 months.
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What this means for a landowner
The plan stage tells you whether allocation is still realistically available. Early stages — evidence gathering and Regulation 18 — are when sites are selected, so a Call for Sites submission has the greatest effect. Once a plan reaches Regulation 19 or examination, the practical routes narrow to soundness representations, the next plan review, or an application relying on the authority's land supply position.
The housing figures matter for the same reason. An authority that cannot demonstrate a five-year supply, or that falls below the Housing Delivery Test thresholds, applies the presumption in favour of sustainable development differently — which is what practitioners mean by the tilted balance.
Common questions
- What stage is the Epping Forest District Council Local Plan at?
- Regulation 18 — issues and options consultation. The first formal consultation. The authority is asking what the plan should cover and which broad locations should grow. Site options are still open.
- Can I still submit land to Epping Forest District Council?
- Sites can normally still be submitted and allocated.
- Can Epping Forest District Council demonstrate a five-year housing land supply?
- The published position is 5 years. Figures move as monitoring is updated, so always check the authority's latest statement.
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This assessment is an automated planning intelligence report based on available public data. It does not constitute planning, legal, valuation or other professional advice and does not guarantee that planning permission will be granted.