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.
2,972 approved · 433 refused · 136 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
223 Ingrave Road Brentwood Essex CM13 2AB
Received Not publishedLavender Cottage Beggar Hill Fryerning Essex CM4 0PG
Received Not publishedCatalpa 5 Cliveden Close Shenfield Essex CM15 8JP
Received Not published23 Great Oaks Hutton Essex CM13 1AZ
Received Not published57 Hutton Village Hutton Essex CM13 1RX
Received Not publishedInglewood Mount Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2NY
Received Not publishedGreenfields Chivers Road Stondon Massey Essex CM15 0LG
Received Not published29 Hutton Village Hutton Essex CM13 1RU
Received Not published2-8 High Street & 2-6 Ingrave Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4AB
Received Not published16 Tallon Road Hutton Essex CM13 1TF
Received Not publishedAdvertising Bus Shelter 2503 0008 10 High Street Brentwood Essex
Received Not published29 The Avenue Brentwood Essex CM13 2AD
Received Not publishedBrown Beeches 116 Priests Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 8HN
Received Not publishedWellington Chelmsford Road Blackmore Essex CM4 0SD
Received Not published72 Sebastian Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8PP
Received Not published10 Orchard Lane Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9RE
Received Not publishedHobbs Cottage Childerditch Street Little Warley Essex CM13 3EG
Received Not published65 Headley Chase Warley Essex CM14 5DH
Received Not published9 Lyndhurst Way Hutton Essex CM13 2QZ
Received Not publishedThe Ursuline High School Queens Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4EX
Received Not publishedHole Farm Hole Farm Lane Great Warley Essex CM13 3JD
Received Not publishedEndeavour School Hogarth Avenue Brentwood Essex CM15 8BE
Received Not publishedThe Hawthorns 1 Kandlewood Hutton Essex CM13 2NX
Received Not publishedBramleys Roman Road Ingatestone Essex CM4 9EX
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 application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

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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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