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 Brentwood Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
2,846 approved · 416 refused · 128 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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 Rayleigh Close Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 1AR
Received Not publishedWheelers Farm Coxtie Green Road Pilgrims Hatch South Weald Essex CM14 5RP
Received Not published27 Burses Way Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 2PL
Received Not publishedFortenay House 14A Ongar Road Brentwood Essex CM15 9AX
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To Hugh Chappington House Magpie Lane Little Warley Essex
Received Not published85 Crescent Road Warley Brentwood Essex CM14 5JG
Received Not published103 Shenfield Place Shenfield Brentwood Essex CM15 9AJ
Received Not published12 Shenfield Place Shenfield Brentwood Essex CM15 9AG
Received Not published2 Weald Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4SX
Received Not publishedMeadow View Childerditch Street Little Warley Brentwood Essex CM13 3EG
Received Not published41 London Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4NN
Received Not published146 Hutton Road Shenfield Brentwood Essex CM15 8NL
Received Not published57 Park Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4TX
Received Not published3 Porters Close Brentwood Essex CM14 4YB
Received Not published51 Middle Road Ingrave Brentwood Essex CM13 3QS
Received Not published3 Cherry Avenue Brentwood Essex CM13 2DZ
Received Not publishedOld Kelvedon Grange Ongar Road Kelvedon Hatch Brentwood Essex CM15 0LA
Received Not published7 Janmead Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 2PU
Received Not published4 & 4A High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4AB
Received Not published4 And 4A High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4AB
Received Not publishedBirch House Mallard Way Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 2NF
Received Not published86 Ingrave Road Brentwood Essex CM13 2AQ
Received Not published2 Sycamore Close Great Warley Brentwood Essex CM13 3FJ
Received Not publishedOld Shenfield Place 2 Hall Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 9AB
Received Not publishedRecords 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Brentwood 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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