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.
3,068 approved · 449 refused · 140 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Brentwood School Middleton Hall Lane Brentwood Essex CM15 8AS
Received Not publishedBrentwood School Grounds Maintenance Yard Middleton Hall Lane Brentwood Essex CM15 8EE
Received Not publishedArnock Motors Southend Arterial Road West Horndon Essex
Received Not published4 Falcon Drive Great Warley Essex CM13 3GU
Received Not published4 Falcon Drive Great Warley Essex CM13 3GU
Received Not published12 Coombe Rise Shenfield Essex CM15 8JJ
Received Not published29 Sunray Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 1PR
Received Not publishedPark Farm Ingatestone Road Blackmore Essex CM4 0NZ
Received Not publishedWindy Nook Warley Road Great Warley Essex CM13 3HX
Received Not published131 Thorndon Avenue West Horndon Essex CM13 3TR
Received Not published11 Mascalls Gardens Brentwood Essex CM14 5LT
Received Not published11 Mascalls Gardens Brentwood Essex CM14 5LT
Received Not published186 Thorndon Avenue West Horndon Essex CM13 3TP
Received Not published49 Shevon Way Brentwood Essex CM14 4PL
Received Not published49 Shevon Way Brentwood Essex CM14 4PL
Received Not published6 St Marys Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8PY
Received Not publishedBrown Beeches 116 Priests Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 8HN
Received Not published1 Hawthorn Avenue Brentwood Essex CM13 2EE
Received Not published9 The Avenue Brentwood Essex CM13 2AD
Received Not published15 Coleridge Walk Hutton Essex CM13 2RT
Received Not published26 Western Avenue Brentwood Essex CM14 4XS
Received Not published74 Thorndon Avenue West Horndon Essex CM13 3TS
Received Not published74 Thorndon Avenue West Horndon Essex CM13 3TS
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To Seventh Day Adventist Church North Drive Hutton Essex
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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