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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.
6,781 approved · 1,376 refused · 223 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 North Of Greenway Billericay Essex
Received 22 Jul 20269 Vange Riverview Centre Clay Hill Road Basildon Essex SS16 4NE
Received 23 Jul 2026Gerald McDonald And Company Ltd Cranes Farm Road Basildon Essex SS14 3GT
Received 23 Jul 2026Unit 19 Radford Crescent Billericay Essex CM12 0DU
Received 23 Jul 202614 Glenwood Gardens Langdon Hills Basildon Essex SS16 6TU
Received 23 Jul 2026Land Adjacent To Whitney House Farm Durley Avenue Wickford Essex SS12 0JQ
Received 23 Jul 2026Land North Of London Road Pitsea Essex
Received 23 Jul 2026Poundland Unit 2 Old Market Retail Park High Road Pitsea Essex SS13 3BY
Received 23 Jul 2026La Vista Thames View Langdon Hills Basildon Essex SS16 5LN
Received 24 Jul 2026Carvers Farm Dunton Road Little Burstead Billericay Essex CM12 9TY
Received 24 Jul 202625 High Cloister Billericay Essex CM11 2AW
Received 24 Jul 202620 Cattawade End Fryerns Basildon Essex SS14 2QQ
Received 25 Jul 202616 The Willingales Laindon Basildon Essex SS15 6QD
Received 25 Jul 202616 The Willingales Laindon Basildon Essex SS15 6QD
Received 25 Jul 20268 Beverley Rise Billericay Essex CM11 2HU
Received 26 Jul 20268 Beverley Rise Billericay Essex CM11 2HU
Received 26 Jul 2026Oak Lodge Oak Chase Wickford Essex SS12 0EU
Received 26 Jul 20264 Una Road Bowers Gifford Essex SS13 2HU
Received 26 Jul 202610 Popes Crescent Pitsea Basildon Essex SS13 3AD
Received 27 Jul 202628 Hillary Mount Billericay Essex CM12 9JT
Received 27 Jul 202661 Cromwell Avenue Billericay Essex CM12 0AG
Received 28 Jul 202628 Thistledown Court Thistledown Basildon Essex SS14 1LP
Received 29 Jul 202614 Furrowfelde Kingswood Basildon Essex SS16 5HB
Received 29 Jul 2026Coopers Lodge 4 Noak Hill Road Great Burstead Billericay Essex CM12 9UG
Received 29 Jul 2026Records 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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