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.
2,959 approved · 433 refused · 135 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land South Of Dagwood Lane Dagwood Lane Doddinghurst Essex
Received Not published1 Magnolia Crescent Great Warley Essex CM13 3FG
Received Not published142 Hutton Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8NL
Received Not publishedPotential Development Site Between Carmel And Hospital Cottage Mascalls Lane Great Warley Essex
Received Not publishedSwallows Cross Farm Wyatts Green Road Wyatts Green Essex
Received Not publishedSwallows Cross Farm Wyatts Green Road Wyatts Green Essex
Received Not published70 Mount Crescent Warley Essex CM14 5DD
Received Not published5 Burnthouse Lane Mountnessing Essex CM4 9AN
Received Not published194 Thorndon Avenue West Horndon Essex CM13 3TP
Received Not published38 Hutton Drive Hutton Essex CM13 2RL
Received Not publishedAdvertising Bus Shelter 2503-0002 Adjacent To 5 Warley Hill Warley Essex
Received Not publishedAdvertising Bus Shelter 2503-0042 Adjacent To 137 Kings Road Brentwood Essex
Received Not publishedAdvertising Bus Shelter 2503-0014 Adjacent To Darlington Court Rayleigh Road Hutton Essex
Received Not publishedAdvertising Bus Shelter 2503-0016 Adjacent To 365 Ongar Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex
Received Not publishedAdvertising Bus Shelter 2503-0010 Adjacent To 240 Hutton Road Shenfield Essex
Received Not publishedAdvertising Bus Shelter 2503-0003 Adjacent To 98 Hutton Road Shenfield Essex
Received Not publishedAdvertising Bus Shelter 2503-0019 Adjacent To Green Dragon Shenfield Road Shenfield Essex
Received Not publishedBraehead 27 Ridgeway Hutton Essex CM13 2LP
Received Not publishedChepstow Ongar Road Stondon Massey Essex CM15 0EQ
Received Not published640 Rayleigh Road Hutton Essex CM13 1SJ
Received Not published13 Tor Bryan Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HJ
Received Not publishedSteeple Lodge Church Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0NJ
Received Not publishedHalfacre 59 Heronway Hutton Essex CM13 2LQ
Received Not published16 Westbury Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4JR
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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