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.
2,999 approved · 438 refused · 137 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
36 Friars Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8HY
Received Not published45 Shenfield Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8EN
Received Not published1 Rose Hall Cottages Shonks Mill Road Navestock Essex RM4 1EU
Received Not published12 Rye Walk Ingatestone Essex CM4 9AL
Received Not published3 Hartswood Close Warley Essex CM14 5AB
Received Not published47 Hutton Village Hutton Essex CM13 1RU
Received Not publishedBloomfield Wambrook Close Hutton Essex CM13 2LR
Received Not publishedThe Old Post Office Warley Road Great Warley Essex CM13 3HX
Received Not published59 The Furlongs Ingatestone Essex CM4 0AJ
Received Not publishedCorn Mill Cottage 3A Deepdene Ingatestone Essex CM4 0AN
Received Not published37 Hatch Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9PU
Received Not publishedIngatestone Fire Station High Street Ingatestone Essex CM4 9EY
Received Not publishedThe Rowans 76 Priests Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 8HQ
Received Not published40 Hamilton Crescent Warley Essex CM14 5ES
Received Not publishedMillers Laundry Lane Mountnessing Essex CM15 0TE
Received Not publishedSt Edmund And St Mary Church High Street Ingatestone Essex
Received Not publishedSanthem Residences 2 Rayleigh Close Hutton Essex CM13 1FD
Received Not published44 Roundwood Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2NA
Received Not published6 Cameron Close Warley Essex CM14 5BX
Received Not published6 Cameron Close Warley Essex CM14 5BX
Received Not publishedStanding Stone Beehive Chase Hook End Essex CM15 0PA
Received Not published82 Station Road West Horndon Essex CM13 3LZ
Received Not publishedLegh Cottage Horseman Side Navestock Essex RM4 1DN
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 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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