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.
2,981 approved · 433 refused · 136 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
131 Woodman Road Warley Essex CM14 5AJ
Received Not publishedBramleys Orchard Little Warley Hall Lane Little Warley Essex CM13 3EU
Received Not publishedBlack Cottage 14 Navestock Side Navestock Essex CM14 5SD
Received Not publishedSpire Hartswood Hospital Warley Road Great Warley Essex CM13 3LE
Received Not published15 Baymans Wood Shenfield Essex CM15 8BT
Received Not published3 Newmans Gate Hutton Essex CM13 2FB
Received Not publishedBrizes Farm Childerditch Lane Little Warley Essex CM13 3EE
Received Not published5 Highview Crescent Hutton Essex CM13 1BJ
Received Not publishedLittle Oaks Fingrith Hall Road Blackmore Essex CM4 0RU
Received Not published23 Clifton Way Hutton Essex CM13 2QR
Received Not publishedChota 15 Challacombe Close Hutton Essex CM13 2LU
Received Not publishedLand South Of Dagwood Lane Doddinghurst Essex
Received Not publishedGround Floor 38 William Hunter Way Brentwood Essex CM14 4WT
Received Not publishedGround Floor 38 William Hunter Way Brentwood Essex CM14 4WT
Received Not published7 Cadogan Avenue West Horndon Essex CM13 3TU
Received Not publishedOak Lodge Albyns Lane Navestock Essex RM4 1RT
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To Former 1 Nags Head Lane Brentwood Essex CM14 5NJ
Received Not published15 Newlands Close Hutton Essex CM13 2SD
Received Not published6 Steeple Way Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0NN
Received Not published42 Beech Avenue Brentwood Essex CM13 2DX
Received Not publishedLand South Of Stocks Lane Stocks Lane Kelvedon Hatch Essex
Received Not publishedLand At Brizes Corner Field Blackmore Road Kelvedon Hatch Essex
Received Not publishedLombards Chase West Horndon Essex
Received Not published134 Warley Hill Warley Essex CM14 5HB
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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