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.
2,952 approved · 431 refused · 135 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Woodside 38 Roundwood Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2LZ
Received Not publishedLand South Of Stocks Lane Stocks Lane Kelvedon Hatch Essex
Received Not published7 Park Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4TX
Received Not publishedOak Lodge 69 High Street Ingatestone Essex CM4 9EU
Received Not published15 Coleridge Walk Hutton Essex CM13 2RT
Received Not publishedThe Cabin Fallow Barn Ashwells Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9SE
Received Not publishedShell Filling Station 65 Brook Street Brentwood Essex CM14 5ND
Received Not published8 Pine Close Ingatestone Essex CM4 9EG
Received Not publishedTrinity Church 49 Coxtie Green Road Pilgrims Hatch South Weald Essex CM14 5PS
Received Not publishedTrinity Church 49 Coxtie Green Road Pilgrims Hatch South Weald Essex CM14 5PS
Received Not publishedBrigade Head Quarters Rayleigh Close Hutton Essex CM13 1AL
Received Not publishedBluebells 119 Rayleigh Road Hutton Essex CM13 1LX
Received Not publishedTreetops 3 Oakleigh Farm Rayleigh Road Hutton Essex CM13 1SE
Received Not published48 Tor Bryan Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HL
Received Not publishedThorndon Park Golf Club Thorndon Gate Ingrave Essex CM13 3RH
Received Not published54 Nags Head Lane Brentwood Essex CM14 5NL
Received Not published104 High Street Ingatestone Essex CM4 0BA
Received Not publishedLescale Weald Park Way South Weald Essex CM14 5QH
Received Not published13-15 Ongar Road Brentwood Essex CM15 9AU
Received Not publishedLand At Wates Way Brentwood Essex
Received Not publishedDevelopment Site Adjacent 77 Mount Avenue Hutton Essex
Received Not published27 St Marys Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8PY
Received Not publishedAlexandra House Mill Hill Shenfield Essex CM15 8EU
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To 152 Chelmsford Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8RT
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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