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.
3,154 approved · 460 refused · 148 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Porters Close Brentwood Essex CM14 4YB
Received Not publishedLand At Hall Wood Adjacent To The Tyburns The Tyburns Brindles Close Hutton Essex CM13 2JD
Received Not published28 Woodman Road Warley Essex CM14 5BE
Received Not published28 Woodman Road Warley Essex CM14 5BE
Received Not publishedThoby Priory Farmhouse Thoby Lane Mountnessing Essex CM15 0TB
Received Not published4 Beads Hall Lane Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9QP
Received Not publishedThoby Priory Cottage Thoby Lane Mountnessing Essex CM15 0TB
Received Not published99 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4RR
Received Not publishedThe Laurels Roman Road Ingatestone Essex CM4 9AE
Received Not published4 The Belvoir Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HQ
Received Not published8 Thornridge Brentwood Essex CM14 4YJ
Received Not publishedOakhurst 35 Middleton Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8DJ
Received Not published5 Tor Bryan Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HJ
Received Not published27 The Grove Brentwood Essex CM14 5NS
Received Not publishedCanterbury Tye Hall Doddinghurst Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 0SD
Received Not published64 High Street Ingatestone Essex CM4 9DW
Received Not publishedEaglesfield The Retreat Hutton Essex CM13 1AN
Received Not publishedBrambles Blackmore Road Hook End Essex CM15 0DT
Received Not publishedPlovers 24 Herington Grove Hutton Essex CM13 2NW
Received Not published16 Courage Walk Hutton Essex CM13 2TA
Received Not published2 Downsland Drive Brentwood Essex CM14 4JT
Received Not publishedKon Tiki Hook End Road Hook End Essex CM15 0HB
Received Not publishedLand North Of Woollard Way Nine Ashes Road Blackmore Essex
Received Not published17 Ridgeway Ingatestone Essex CM4 9AS
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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