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.
2,861 approved · 416 refused · 132 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Lambourne Drive Hutton Essex CM13 1QP
Received Not publishedBluebells Second Avenue Hook End Essex CM15 0HH
Received Not publishedSnapdragons Market Place Ingatestone Essex CM4 0BY
Received Not publishedThe Coppice 15 Ridgeway Hutton Essex CM13 2LP
Received Not publishedSpindlewood Brockley Grove Hutton Essex CM13 2JJ
Received Not published86A Priests Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 8HQ
Received Not publishedDagwood Farm Warren Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0JD
Received Not published7 Carswell Close Hutton Essex CM13 1PD
Received Not published2 Kilmington Close Hutton Essex CM13 2JZ
Received Not publishedChepstow Ongar Road Stondon Massey Essex CM15 0EQ
Received Not published9 Mascalls Lane Brentwood Essex CM14 5LR
Received Not published19 Selwood Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4PX
Received Not publishedPooks Hill Riseway Brentwood Essex CM15 8BG
Received Not published1 Gainsborough Place Hutton Essex CM13 2RF
Received Not publishedCherry Trees 12 Cliveden Close Shenfield Essex CM15 8JP
Received Not published15 Roundwood Grove Hutton Essex CM13 2NE
Received Not publishedHunts Farm Old Church Lane Mountnessing Essex CM13 1UR
Received Not published65 Headley Chase Warley Essex CM14 5DH
Received Not publishedMores House 34 Mores Lane Pilgrims Hatch South Weald Essex CM14 5PZ
Received Not published3 Great Oaks Hutton Essex CM13 1AZ
Received Not published125 Crow Green Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9RP
Received Not publishedMontevideo 18 Roundwood Grove Hutton Essex CM13 2NE
Received Not publishedOaklands 2 Greenway Hutton Essex CM13 2NR
Received Not publishedLand North Of Woollard Way Nine Ashes Road Blackmore Essex
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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