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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.
6,495 approved · 1,309 refused · 211 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Dec 2019 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Car Park 14 Laindon Link Basildon Essex
Received 2 May 20252 Surrey Way Laindon Basildon Essex SS15 6PS
Received 23 Apr 2025Stock Brook Manor Golf And Country Club Queens Park Avenue Billericay Essex CM12 0SP
Received 2 May 2025Grimshill Farm House Southend Road Great Burstead Billericay Essex CM11 2PP
Received 2 May 2025Oak Cottage Homestead Road Ramsden Bellhouse Billericay Essex CM11 1RP
Received 3 May 2025Willowdale Centre High Street Wickford Essex SS12 0RA
Received 3 May 202511 Egerton Drive Langdon Hills Essex SS16 6EE
Received 4 May 202561 Meadow Rise Billericay Essex CM11 2ED
Received 6 May 2025Brambletye Cranfield Park Road Wickford Essex SS12 9EP
Received 6 May 2025Land Adjcent To Clovelly Studland Avenue Wickford Essex
Received 6 May 2025Land West Of Windsor Lodge Windsor Road Bowers Gifford Basildon Essex
Received 6 May 20256 Cross Avenue Wickford Essex SS12 0NA
Received 6 May 20252 Medoc Close Pitsea Basildon Essex SS13 1NR
Received 7 May 20253 - 31 Runwell Road Wickford Essex
Received 7 May 2025150 Western Road Billericay Essex
Received 7 May 2025138 High Street Billericay Essex CM12 9DF
Received 7 May 2025183 School Avenue Laindon Basildon Essex SS15 6LZ
Received 7 May 202539 Laurel Avenue Wickford Essex SS12 0BH
Received 7 May 2025The Field Lower Avenue Bowers Gifford Basildon Essex SS13 2LZ
Received 7 May 202522 - 26 Runwell Road Wickford Essex SS11 7AB
Received 7 May 2025Billet Autosales Archers Fields Pitsea Basildon Essex SS13 1DN
Received 8 May 20252 Copperfield Billericay Essex CM11 2SB
Received 2 May 2025Ferndale Church Road Laindon Basildon Essex SS15 5SH
Received 8 May 202510 Crouchview Close Shotgate Wickford Essex SS11 8QB
Received 9 May 2025Records 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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