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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.
6,604 approved · 1,339 refused · 215 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 New Cottages London Road Pitsea Essex SS13 2DL
Received 20 Nov 202514 Sporhams Lee Chapel South Basildon Essex SS16 5TT
Received 20 Nov 2025Land Adjacent Highfield Potash Road Billericay Essex
Received 20 Nov 2025Parsonage Stud Farm Church Lane Ramsden Crays Billericay Essex CM11 2UN
Received 21 Nov 202524 Beeleigh Cross Basildon Essex SS14 2RN
Received 21 Nov 202544 Kennedy Avenue Laindon Basildon Essex SS15 6LE
Received 21 Nov 202511 Laindon Road Billericay Essex CM12 9LL
Received 21 Nov 202560 Scrub Rise Billericay Essex CM12 9PG
Received 21 Nov 202522 Prince Edward Road Billericay Essex CM11 2HA
Received 21 Nov 2025Unit 16 Carnival Park Carnival Close Basildon Essex SS14 3WN
Received 21 Nov 2025Land At Pipps Hill Road North Billericay Essex
Received 22 Nov 20251 Victoria Crescent Wickford Essex SS12 0DJ
Received 23 Nov 2025Land Adjacent To 3 Wood Green Pitsea Basildon Essex
Received 23 Nov 202517 Hornsby Square Laindon Basildon Essex SS15 6SD
Received 24 Nov 2025Coopers Cottage Laindon Common Road Billericay Essex CM12 9TJ
Received 24 Nov 202590 Grange Road Billericay Essex CM11 2RL
Received 24 Nov 2025Ground Floor Bellasduna House Chester Hall Lane Basildon Essex SS14 3BG
Received 25 Nov 2025Land At Pipps Hill Road North Billericay Essex
Received 25 Nov 2025Land North Of The Willows Lower Park Road Wickford Essex
Received 25 Nov 2025139 Grange Road Billericay Essex CM11 2SA
Received 25 Nov 202551 Deirdre Avenue Wickford Essex SS12 0AY
Received 25 Nov 20252 Mill Cottage Southend Road Great Burstead Billericay Essex CM12 9QH
Received 26 Nov 2025Premier Inn High Road Fobbing Essex SS17 9HG
Received 26 Nov 202542 School Road Billericay Essex CM12 9LH
Received 26 Nov 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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