Source: Waltham Forest Council·Updated daily·Last checked 8 Oct 2026
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Plota holds 3,503 current planning applications from Waltham Forest Council, received since 15 Oct 2018, 572 of them in the last 90 days. Behind them, the Plota archive holds 33,676 earlier applications from Waltham Forest Council, 2016 to 2025, searchable by location and keyword. Current records are collected from the council's public register at placehub.walthamforest.gov.uk and checked every day; the last check was on 8 Oct 2026. Each record carries the council's reference, address, proposal, dates, status and decision, with a map location and Plota's classification by type and procedure added. The council's own record is the authoritative version; every entry here links to it.
Latest application from Waltham Forest: 8 Oct 2026. We check the council's portal daily.