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.
2,784 approved · 404 refused · 125 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Rosen Crescent Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 2TU
Received Not published69 Tor Bryan Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HN
Received Not published197 Ingrave Road Brentwood Essex CM13 2AB
Received Not published199 Ongar Road Brentwood Essex CM15 9DU
Received Not published88 Wainwright Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2SZ
Received Not published51 Hartswood Road Warley Brentwood Essex CM14 5AG
Received Not published51 Billericay Road Herongate Brentwood Essex CM13 3PU
Received Not published4 Woodfield Cottages High Street Ingatestone Essex CM4 0DY
Received Not publishedCar Park Opp Central Office Ford Motor Co Ltd Eagle Way Great Warley Essex
Received Not published4A High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4AB
Received Not published681 Rayleigh Road Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 1SS
Received Not publishedPump Farm House Warley Gap Little Warley Brentwood Essex CM13 3DR
Received Not publishedHutton Garden Centre North Drive Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 1SH
Received Not publishedHall Farm Hall Lane Shenfield Brentwood Essex CM15 0SH
Received Not published4 Nags Head Lane Brentwood Essex CM14 5NJ
Received Not published88 Ingrave Road Brentwood Essex CM13 2AQ
Received Not publishedRiverbank Wyatts Green Road Wyatts Green Essex CM15 0SR
Received Not published97 Chelmsford Road Shenfield Brentwood Essex CM15 8QP
Received Not published1 Bowmont Close Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 1EB
Received Not published17 Bardeswell Close Brentwood Essex CM14 4TJ
Received Not publishedBramleys Childerditch Street Little Warley Brentwood Essex CM13 3EG
Received Not publishedEndeavour School Hogarth Avenue Brentwood Essex CM15 8BE
Received Not publishedGrange Court The Limes Ingatestone Essex
Received Not published54 Willow Green Ingatestone Essex CM4 0DH
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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