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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 Basildon Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
5,488 approved · 1,063 refused · 167 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Dec 2019 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Beatty Lane Basildon Essex SS14 1QH
Received 7 Oct 202211 Winstanley Way Basildon Essex SS14 3BP
Received 7 Oct 2022Land South Side Dry Street Langdon Hills Basildon Essex
Received 7 Oct 202215 Harris Close Wickford SS12 9QY
Received 7 Oct 202225 Mount Road Wickford Essex SS11 8HJ
Received 8 Oct 20223 West Park Drive Billericay Essex CM12 9EH
Received 8 Oct 202220 Elsenham Crescent Basildon Essex SS14 1UB
Received 8 Oct 202270 Frithwood Lane Billericay Essex CM12 9PW
Received 10 Oct 202211 Tensing Gardens Billericay Essex CM12 9JX
Received 10 Oct 202212 Argent Court Laindon Basildon Essex SS15 6TH
Received 10 Oct 202227 Dukes Road Billericay Essex CM11 1BP
Received 10 Oct 202218 St Davids Way Wickford Essex SS11 8EX
Received 10 Oct 2022Land At Nether Mayne Basildon Essex
Received 10 Oct 202265 Friern Gardens Wickford Essex SS12 0HD
Received 10 Oct 20222 Chaplin Close Noak Bridge Basildon Essex SS15 4EJ
Received 10 Oct 2022Highlands Lee Chapel Lane Langdon Hills Essex SS16 5NX
Received 10 Oct 202281 Church Street Billericay Essex CM11 2TS
Received 10 Oct 2022The Willows Primary School Church Road Basildon Essex SS14 2EX
Received 30 Sept 2022Dale Farm Oak Lane Billericay Essex CM11 2YJ
Received 22 Sept 2022U B B Essex Construction J V Visitor Centre Waste Treatment Facility Courtauld Road Basildon Essex SS13 1DB
Received 30 Aug 2022Kingswood Primary And Nursery School Clay Hill Road Basildon Essex SS16 5DE
Received 3 Oct 2022Sadlers Hall Farm London Road Bowers Gifford Basildon Essex SS13 2HD
Received 11 Oct 2022248 Noak Hill Road Great Burstead Billericay Essex CM12 9UX
Received 11 Oct 2022243 Noak Hill Road Great Burstead Billericay Essex CM12 9UN
Received 11 Oct 2022Records 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 Basildon Borough 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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