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.
2,971 approved · 433 refused · 136 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Conifers 38 Rochford Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8QW
Received Not published16 Docklands Avenue Ingatestone Essex CM4 9DS
Received Not published1 Sebastian Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8PN
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To Trigate Mill Green Road Fryerning Essex
Received Not publishedLand Opposite Straddles Hook End Road Hook End Essex
Received Not publishedHutton Croft 23 Mount Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2NU
Received Not publishedLangtons Sandpit Lane South Weald Essex CM14 5QD
Received Not published51 Shevon Way Brentwood Essex CM14 4PL
Received Not published2 Rossmere Mews Brentwood Essex CM14 4WY
Received Not publishedCentral House Eagle Way Great Warley Essex
Received Not publishedHoyles Farm Princes Road Navestock Essex CM14 5SH
Received Not published14 Weald Close Brentwood Essex CM14 4QU
Received Not publishedPlots 2 & 2A Greenacres Oak Tree Farm Chelmsford Road Blackmore Essex CM4 0PZ
Received Not publishedThe Mesken Bar & Grill (Formerly The Plough) 570 Rayleigh Road Hutton Essex CM13 1SG
Received Not published1 Tennyson Road Hutton Essex CM13 2SJ
Received Not publishedThoby Priory Farmhouse Thoby Lane Mountnessing Essex CM15 0TB
Received Not published123 Hunter Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8PG
Received Not publishedBrown Beeches 116 Priests Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 8HN
Received Not publishedMontbazon Court Cleves Avenue Brentwood Essex
Received Not publishedFeremina 19 The Avenue Brentwood Essex CM13 2AD
Received Not published22 Shevon Way Brentwood Essex CM14 4PJ
Received Not publishedLingwood Ashwells Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9SE
Received Not published58 Long Ridings Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 1EE
Received Not published18 Kipling Close Warley Essex CM14 5WW
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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