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.
2,929 approved · 428 refused · 133 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ivy Cottage Mill Green Road Fryerning Essex CM4 0HY
Received Not publishedIvy Cottage Mill Green Road Fryerning Essex CM4 0HY
Received Not published57 Hutton Village Hutton Essex CM13 1RX
Received Not published9 Station Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 0BP
Received Not publishedBeads Hall Fisheries Beads Hall Lane Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9QP
Received Not published3 Tor Bryan Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HJ
Received Not publishedMeadow Farm Ongar Road Stondon Massey Essex CM15 0EA
Received Not publishedWoodside Farm Navestock Side Navestock Essex CM14 5SB
Received Not publishedThe Grange Back Lane Fryerning Essex CM4 0HW
Received Not publishedThe Grange Back Lane Fryerning Essex CM4 0HW
Received Not published134 Warley Hill Warley Essex CM14 5HB
Received Not published37 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4RH
Received Not publishedPark Farm Dunton Road Herongate Essex CM13 3SG
Received Not publishedThe Cottage Colmar Farm Weald Park Way South Weald Essex CM14 5QH
Received Not publishedFormer Topps Tiles 38 Brook Street Brentwood Essex CM14 5LX
Received Not publishedMeadow Farm Ongar Road Stondon Massey Essex CM15 0EA
Received Not published142 Hutton Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8NL
Received Not published15 Weald Close Brentwood Essex CM14 4QU
Received Not publishedLand East Of Alexander Lane Shenfield Essex
Received Not publishedLadys Walk 27 Greenway Hutton Essex CM13 2NP
Received Not publishedBrigadoon Nine Ashes Road Blackmore Essex CM4 0QW
Received Not publishedCaravan Mapleton Growers Farm Mores Lane Pilgrims Hatch South Weald Essex CM14 5RZ
Received Not publishedLynsays Farm Beggar Hill Fryerning Essex
Received Not published17 Gordon Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8LR
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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