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.
6,502 approved · 1,312 refused · 211 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At Readers Yard And The Willows Off Fobbing High Road And Moores Avenue Fobbing Essex
Received 14 May 202597 Chapel Street Billericay Essex CM12 9LR
Received 14 May 2025184 Western Road Billericay Essex CM12 9JD
Received 15 May 2025Laindon Shopping Centre Laindon Centre Laindon Basildon Essex SS15 5TH
Received 15 May 20252 Laburnum Avenue Wickford Essex SS12 0DD
Received 15 May 2025Unit 7 Festival Leisure Park Festival Way Basildon Essex SS14 3WB
Received 15 May 20259 Newlands Road Billericay Essex CM12 0QE
Received 15 May 20257 The Vale Stock Billericay Essex CM4 9PW
Received 15 May 2025Land South Of Tyefields Pitsea Basildon Essex
Received 15 May 2025127 Perry Street Billericay Essex CM12 0NH
Received 16 May 2025Land North Of Studland Avenue Wickford Essex
Received 14 May 2025Verne House Readers Close Fobbing Basildon SS17 9FP
Received 16 May 2025Chester Court Chester Hall Lane Basildon Essex SS14 3BL
Received 16 May 2025Dicky's Yard Moores Avenue Fobbing Essex
Received 16 May 2025The Brambles Glebe Road Ramsden Bellhouse Billericay Essex CM11 1RL
Received 17 May 202511 Magenta Close Billericay Essex CM12 0LF
Received 17 May 202554 High Street Wickford Essex
Received 17 May 202514 Littlehurst Lane Noak Bridge Basildon Essex SS15 4JT
Received 17 May 2025Wyndhurst Upper Park Road Wickford Essex SS12 9EN
Received 18 May 20251 Tensing Gardens Billericay Essex CM12 9JX
Received 18 May 202513 Victoria Road Laindon Essex SS15 6AN
Received 19 May 202525 Mercer Road Billericay Essex CM11 1DH
Received 20 May 2025Lot 1 Lampern Crescent Billericay Essex
Received 12 May 2025Unit 3 Saffron Works Russell Gardens Wickford Essex SS11 8BH
Received 20 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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