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.
3,183 approved · 465 refused · 152 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bon Accord Hook End Road Hook End Essex CM15 0HA
Received Not published7 Thorndon Avenue West Horndon Essex CM13 3TT
Received Not publishedRed Rose Farm Red Rose Lane Blackmore Essex CM4 0SA
Received Not publishedFrenches Farm Wigley Bush Lane South Weald Essex CM14 5QP
Received Not publishedFord Motor Co Ltd Car Park Adj Central Office Eagle Way Warley Brentwood CM13 8BW
Received Not publishedBetula 5 Wambrook Close Hutton Essex CM13 2LR
Received Not publishedCare Home Site, Car Park Opposite Central Office Ford Motor Co. Ltd. Eagle Way Great Warley Essex Brentwood, CM13 3GU
Received Not publishedSunshine 65 Cricketers Lane Herongate Essex CM13 3QB
Received Not publishedKilve 26 Peartree Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0RP
Received Not published233 Chelmsford Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8SA
Received Not published3 The Hamlet Lower Road Mountnessing Essex CM15 0TR
Received Not publishedBlackmore House Fingrith Hall Road Blackmore Essex CM4 0RU
Received Not publishedChota 15 Challacombe Close Hutton Essex CM13 2LU
Received Not published5 The Leas Ingatestone Essex CM4 9AF
Received Not publishedWarley Hall Magpie Lane Little Warley Essex CM13 3DT
Received Not published14 Surman Crescent Hutton Essex CM13 2PP
Received Not publishedChadstone Shelley Road Hutton Essex CM13 2SF
Received Not publishedBrambles Church Street Blackmore Essex CM4 0RN
Received Not published23 Church Road Mountnessing Essex CM15 0TH
Received Not published74 Mount Crescent Warley Essex CM14 5DD
Received Not published56 Hamilton Crescent Warley Essex CM14 5ES
Received Not publishedSnapdragons Market Place Ingatestone Essex CM4 0BY
Received Not published144 Thorndon Avenue West Horndon Essex CM13 3TR
Received Not publishedChaseside Hardings Lane Fryerning Essex CM4 0HZ
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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