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.
3,155 approved · 460 refused · 148 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Birley Grange 30 Hall Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 9AL
Received Not published47 Willow Green Ingatestone Essex CM4 0DH
Received Not publishedHartswood House Hartswood Road Warley Essex CM14 5AG
Received Not published7 Mascalls Lane Brentwood Essex CM14 5LR
Received Not publishedCodham Hall Codham Hall Lane Great Warley Essex CM13 3JT
Received Not published46 Headley Chase Warley Essex CM14 5BN
Received Not published58A The Meads Ingatestone Essex CM4 0AE
Received Not published46 Sebastian Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8PW
Received Not published8 Hanover Place Warley Essex CM14 5WE
Received Not published43 North Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4UZ
Received Not published188 Rayleigh Road Hutton Essex CM13 1PN
Received Not publishedThe Old Post Office Wigley Bush Lane South Weald Essex CM14 5QN
Received Not published13 The Heythrop Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HG
Received Not published73 Shenfield Place Shenfield Essex CM15 9AJ
Received Not publishedBirchmere 6 The Coppice Kelvedon Hatch Essex CM15 0DB
Received Not published11 Coombe Rise Shenfield Essex CM15 8JJ
Received Not publishedLand At Wates Way Ongar Road Brentwood Essex
Received Not published60 Mountney Close Mountnessing Essex CM4 9AP
Received Not publishedHumes Church Lane Hutton Essex CM13 1SB
Received Not published6 Newlands Close Hutton Essex CM13 2SD
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To Roman Road Ingatestone
Received Not publishedPriory Church Of St Laurence Church Street Blackmore Essex
Received Not published69 Mount Crescent Warley Essex CM14 5DD
Received Not publishedThe Bell High Street Ingatestone Essex CM4 0AT
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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