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.
2,938 approved · 430 refused · 134 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Jolma Cornsland Brentwood Essex CM14 4JL
Received Not published5 Geary Court Geary Drive Brentwood Essex CM14 4XP
Received Not published20 Blenheim Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9LP
Received Not publishedCrow Green Fishery Days Lane Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9SJ
Received Not publishedAnnexe Meadow View Murthering Lane Navestock Essex RM4 1HL
Received Not published2 Great Oaks Hutton Essex CM13 1AZ
Received Not publishedLyndhurst New Road Ingatestone Essex CM4 0HH
Received Not publishedQueens Building Brentwood School Ingrave Road Brentwood Essex
Received Not published46 Orchard Piece Blackmore Essex CM4 0RZ
Received Not published28 Firsgrove Crescent Warley Essex CM14 5JL
Received Not publishedStapleford Abbotts Golf Club Horseman Side Navestock Essex RM4 1JU
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent 1 La Plata Grove Brentwood Essex CM14 4LA
Received Not published54 Oliver Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8PX
Received Not published71 Thorndon Hall Thorndon Park Ingrave Essex CM13 3RJ
Received Not publishedBluebells Second Avenue Hook End Essex CM15 0HH
Received Not publishedMeadow View Childerditch Street Little Warley Essex CM13 3EG
Received Not publishedLand North Of Woollard Way Nine Ashes Road Blackmore Essex
Received Not published5 Sunray Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 1PR
Received Not published25 St Marys Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8PY
Received Not publishedCentral House Eagle Way Great Warley Essex
Received Not publishedLand At Brizes Corner Field Blackmore Road Kelvedon Hatch Essex
Received Not publishedThe Croft Blind Lane Herongate Essex CM12 9SN
Received Not publishedLand South Of Stocks Lane Stocks Lane Kelvedon Hatch Essex
Received Not publishedMasons Resturant 155 - 157 Ingrave Road Brentwood Essex CM13 2AA
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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