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.
3,048 approved · 447 refused · 139 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Belmont House Rose Bank Brentwood Essex CM14 4SQ
Received Not publishedThe Haven Wambrook Close Hutton Essex CM13 2LR
Received Not publishedElgin House Cameron Close Warley Essex
Received Not publishedAmblerise 4 Park Lane Herongate Essex CM13 3PJ
Received Not publishedKer 31 Greenway Hutton Essex CM13 2NP
Received Not publishedWoodside 38 Roundwood Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2LZ
Received Not publishedIvydene Doddinghurst Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 0SB
Received Not published5 Bakers Cottages Warren Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0JG
Received Not published32 Woodman Road Warley Essex CM14 5BE
Received Not published42 Doddinghurst Road Brentwood Essex CM15 9EH
Received Not published85 Brentwood Road Ingrave Essex CM13 3NU
Received Not publishedPetre Chapel And Mausoleum Thorndon Park Warley Essex
Received Not publishedPetre Chapel And Mausoleum Thorndon Park Warley Essex
Received Not published46 Church Road Kelvedon Hatch Essex CM14 5TJ
Received Not published2-8 High Street & 2-6 Ingrave Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4AB
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To Billericay Power Generation Plant Old Church Lane Mountnessing Essex CM13 1UP
Received Not published20 South Weald Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4QZ
Received Not publishedOld Market Place Market Place Ingatestone Essex CM4 0BY
Received Not published42 Woodman Road Warley Essex CM14 5AZ
Received Not publishedOakwood Place SARC Brentwood Community Hospital Crescent Drive Shenfield Essex CM15 8DR
Received Not publishedRhapsody Crescent Warley Essex
Received Not published62 Little Highwood Way Brentwood Essex CM14 4RJ
Received Not publishedPippins Cliveden Close Shenfield Essex CM15 8JP
Received Not published12 Littlebury Court Kelvedon Hatch Essex CM15 0XQ
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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