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.
3,064 approved · 449 refused · 140 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Downsland Drive Brentwood Essex CM14 4JT
Received Not published2 Downsland Drive Brentwood Essex CM14 4JT
Received Not published2 Downsland Drive Brentwood Essex CM14 4JT
Received Not published13 Crown Mews Ingatestone Essex CM4 0FP
Received Not published114 Shenfield Place Shenfield Essex CM15 9AG
Received Not publishedLand North Of Woollard Way Nine Ashes Road Blackmore Essex
Received Not publishedTree Tops Outings Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0LS
Received Not published82 - 84 High Street Ingatestone Essex CM4 9DW
Received Not published82 - 84 High Street Ingatestone Essex CM4 9DW
Received Not publishedHill House Blackmore Road Fryerning Essex CM4 0NW
Received Not publishedPeace Church Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0NA
Received Not publishedChelmwood House St Annes Road Mountnessing Essex CM15 0SZ
Received Not publishedAppletree Farm Thorndon Park Warley Essex CM13 3SA
Received Not publishedLand At 200 Brentwood Road Herongate Essex CM13 3PN
Received Not publishedFrenches Farm Wigley Bush Lane South Weald Essex CM14 5QP
Received Not published68 Avenue Road Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HB
Received Not published4 Graham Close Hutton Essex CM13 1HJ
Received Not publishedHighcliffe 13 Nags Head Lane Brentwood Essex CM14 5NJ
Received Not published66A Sebastian Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8PP
Received Not publishedThe Crosses Great Warley Street Great Warley Essex CM13 3JF
Received Not publishedHousing Redevelopment Brookfield Close Hutton Essex
Received Not publishedHousing Redevelopment Including Courage Court Brookfield Close Hutton Essex
Received Not published44 Roundwood Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2NA
Received Not publishedPark Farm Weald Park Way South Weald Essex CM14 5QH
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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