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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.
5,896 approved · 1,178 refused · 183 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Dec 2019 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St Peters Church Church Lane Basildon Essex SS13 1BS
Received 14 May 202420 Bootham Road Billericay Essex CM12 9NG
Received 14 May 202412 Tenterfields Pitsea Basildon Essex SS13 1BB
Received 14 May 2024Craylands Estates And Former Fryerns School Site Craylands Basildon Essex
Received 14 May 2024Mascot Windsor Road Bowers Gifford Basildon Essex SS13 2LH
Received 14 May 2024287 Great Knightleys Basildon Essex SS15 5EF
Received 14 May 202452 Shepeshall Laindon Basildon Essex SS15 5EJ
Received 15 May 20245 Pickwick Close Laindon Basildon Essex SS15 5SW
Received 15 May 202418 Bonnygate Basildon Essex SS14 2QN
Received 15 May 202412 Little Norsey Road Billericay Essex CM11 1BL
Received 15 May 20248 Goldings Crescent Vange Essex SS16 4RY
Received 15 May 20242 Norsey Grange Billericay Essex CM11 1BA
Received 15 May 202436 Palmer Way Langdon Hills Basildon Essex SS16 5LW
Received 15 May 2024Car Park 14 Laindon Link Basildon Essex
Received 15 May 2024Fairview Coxes Farm Road Billericay Essex
Received 15 May 202497 Chapel Street Billericay Essex CM12 9LR
Received 15 May 202423 Glanmire Billericay Essex CM11 1DU
Received 16 May 2024Oak Croft Green Lane Little Burstead Billericay Essex CM12 9TT
Received 16 May 2024Land North Of Bowers Close London Road Pitsea Essex
Received 16 May 2024Longman Motors East Mayne Basildon Essex
Received 16 May 2024The Fens Crays Hill Billericay Essex CM11 2YA
Received 17 May 202420 Trinity Close Billericay Essex CM11 2RZ
Received 17 May 2024Ford Research And Engineering Centre West Mayne Dunton Basildon Essex SS15 6EE
Received 17 May 2024Winifred Cottage Windsor Road Bowers Gifford Basildon Essex SS13 2LH
Received 17 May 2024Records 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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