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.
3,160 approved · 460 refused · 148 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Vine Way Brentwood Essex CM14 4UU
Received Not published101 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4RR
Received Not published101 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4RR
Received Not published17 Honeysuckle Close Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9QE
Received Not published106 Hanging Hill Lane Hutton Essex CM13 2HN
Received Not publishedThe Emblems Mountnessing Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0SP
Received Not published50 Rayleigh Road Hutton Essex CM13 1BA
Received Not published630 Rayleigh Road Hutton Essex CM13 1SG
Received Not published16 Hawthorn Avenue Brentwood Essex CM13 2EE
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To 2 Rosen Crescent Hutton Essex CM13 2TU
Received Not published41 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4RH
Received Not published41 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4RH
Received Not published4 Rye Walk Ingatestone Essex CM4 9AL
Received Not publishedCoppice Bungalow School Road Kelvedon Hatch Essex CM15 0DL
Received Not published85 Chelmsford Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8QP
Received Not published33 Common Road Ingrave Essex CM13 3QL
Received Not publishedIvy Villas 155 Priests Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 8HS
Received Not published32 Kavanaghs Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4NE
Received Not publishedUnits 2, 3B And 3C East Horndon Business Park Tilbury Road West Horndon
Received Not publishedCawdor House Cameron Close Warley Essex
Received Not published86 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4AP
Received Not publishedLynsays Farm Beggar Hill Fryerning Essex
Received Not publishedLand South Of Stocks Lane Kelvedon Hatch CM15 0BN
Received Not published14 Brentwood Road Ingrave Essex CM13 3QY
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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