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.
3,056 approved · 449 refused · 139 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Mount Pleasant Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 1PW
Received Not published105 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4RR
Received Not publishedBramleys Roman Road Ingatestone Essex CM4 9EX
Received Not published7 Peartrees Ingrave Essex CM13 3RP
Received Not published7 Fielders Court Crown Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4FE
Received Not published41 Sebastian Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8PW
Received Not publishedPriors Golf Club Horseman Side Navestock Essex CM14 5ST
Received Not published3 Abbots Close Shenfield Essex CM15 8LT
Received Not publishedLand East Of Nags Head Lane Nags Head Lane Brentwood Essex
Received Not publishedHole Farm Hole Farm Lane Great Warley Essex CM13 3JD
Received Not publishedHulletts Farm Hulletts Lane Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9RX
Received Not publishedThe Old Beer House Beggar Hill Fryerning Essex CM4 0PL
Received Not publishedMoudaire Farm Church Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0NJ
Received Not publishedThoby Farm St Annes Road Mountnessing Essex CM15 0TX
Received Not published27 Cotswold Gardens Hutton Essex CM13 1RB
Received Not published51 Tor Bryan Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HL
Received Not published137 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4RZ
Received Not publishedBrentwood County High School Seven Arches Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4JF
Received Not published5 Parsonage Field Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0RN
Received Not publishedFrenches Farm Wigley Bush Lane South Weald Essex CM14 5QP
Received Not published33 Hall Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 9AL
Received Not published77 Danes Way Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9JT
Received Not published31 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4RG
Received Not publishedThe Ursuline High School Queens Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4EX
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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