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2,784 approved · 404 refused · 125 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Elmwood 18 Greenway Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 2NR
Received Not published173 Ingrave Road Brentwood Essex CM13 2AA
Received Not publishedHunts Farm Old Church Lane Mountnessing Brentwood Essex CM13 1UR
Received Not publishedDevelopment Land Adjacent To Roman Road Roman Road Ingatestone Essex
Received Not published124 High Street Ingatestone Essex CM4 9EY
Received Not published6 Paglesfield Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 1BQ
Received Not published46 Shevon Way Brentwood Essex CM14 4PL
Received Not publishedRiverside Albyns Lane Navestock Essex RM4 1RT
Received Not published110 Westwood Avenue Brentwood Essex CM14 4NU
Received Not publishedLingwood Ashwells Road Pilgrims Hatch Brentwood Essex CM15 9SE
Received Not publishedCharwell House 10 Larkin Close Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 2SL
Received Not publishedPump Farm House Warley Gap Little Warley Brentwood Essex CM13 3DR
Received Not published44 Roundwood Avenue Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 2NA
Received Not published2 Baymans Wood Shenfield Brentwood Essex CM15 8BT
Received Not published29 Sunray Avenue Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 1PR
Received Not published53 Gloucester Road Pilgrims Hatch Brentwood Essex CM15 9NA
Received Not publishedOak Lodge 69 High Street Ingatestone Essex CM4 9EU
Received Not published11 Willowdene Pilgrims Hatch Brentwood Essex CM15 9JQ
Received Not published99 Shenfield Place Shenfield Brentwood Essex CM15 9AJ
Received Not published2 Marconi Gardens Pilgrims Hatch Brentwood Essex CM15 9QY
Received Not publishedSpinney Cottage Hardings Lane Fryerning Ingatestone Essex CM4 0HZ
Received Not published52 Long Meadow Hutton Brentwood Essex CM13 2HJ
Received Not published142 Hutton Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8NL
Received Not published23 Marlborough Road Pilgrims Hatch Brentwood Essex CM15 9LN
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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