Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
5,491 approved · 1,066 refused · 167 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
12 Oakhurst Drive Wickford Essex SS12 0NN
Received 12 Oct 202226 Hillhouse Drive Billericay Essex CM12 0BA
Received 5 Oct 2022Land At Southend Road Great Burstead Billericay Essex
Received 12 Oct 2022Rose Villa Crays Hill Road Billericay Essex CM11 2YP
Received 13 Oct 202231 Charleston Avenue Pitsea Essex SS13 1TD
Received 18 Oct 2022Land On The East Side Of Newhouse Avenue Wickford Essex
Received 21 Oct 2022Eversley Leisure Centre Crest Avenue Pitsea Essex SS13 2EF
Received 24 Oct 202260 Broad Oaks Wickford Essex SS12 9BQ
Received 20 Oct 202245 Oak Crescent Wickford Essex SS11 7FF
Received 24 Oct 20228 Bell Farm Green Billericay Essex CM12 9RW
Received 24 Oct 2022Basildon Zoo London Road Vange Essex
Received 24 Oct 2022Dunton Grange Lower Dunton Road Dunton Basildon Essex CM13 3SN
Received 24 Oct 2022Macker Metals Wrexham Road Laindon Basildon Essex SS15 6PX
Received 25 Oct 2022Maisron Eversley Road Pitsea Basildon Essex SS13 2DJ
Received 25 Oct 2022Tremlett Villa London Road Pitsea Essex SS13 2DB
Received 25 Oct 202213 Ganels Road Billericay Essex CM11 2TE
Received 25 Oct 202255 Edward Gardens Wickford Essex SS11 7EH
Received 25 Oct 2022Treetops Glebe Road Ramsden Bellhouse Billericay Essex CM11 1RL
Received 26 Oct 2022Velocity 30 Paycocke Road Basildon Essex SS14 3NW
Received 26 Oct 202212 Grosvenor Gardens Billericay Essex CM12 0UF
Received 27 Oct 20228 Priors Close Basildon Essex SS14 1JZ
Received 27 Oct 202259 Station Road Billericay Essex CM12 9DR
Received 27 Oct 202285 Great Spenders Basildon Essex SS14 2NS
Received 27 Oct 2022Eversley Leisure Centre Crest Avenue Pitsea Essex SS13 2EF
Received 24 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage