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.
3,186 approved · 465 refused · 152 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
21 Roundwood Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2ND
Received Not publishedBernkastel 78 Peartree Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0RH
Received Not publishedLand East Of Nags Head Lane Nags Head Lane Brentwood Essex
Received Not publishedClaret House Sawyers Hall Lane Brentwood Essex CM15 9BZ
Received Not publishedDaisy Cottage Sawyers Hall Lane Brentwood Essex CM15 9BZ
Received Not publishedAspen House 12 Aspen Court Hornbeam Close Brentwood Essex CM13 2LD
Received Not published43 Woodland Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 1HG
Received Not published22 Cedar Road Hutton Essex CM13 1NB
Received Not published80 Arnolds Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 1EX
Received Not publishedThe Briars Mountnessing Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0SP
Received Not publishedBirley Grange 30 Hall Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 9AL
Received Not publishedEast View Parkwood Doddinghurst Road Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0SN
Received Not published5 Cedar Road Hutton Essex CM13 1NA
Received Not published26 Western Avenue Brentwood Essex CM14 4XS
Received Not published15 St Kildas Road Brentwood Essex CM15 9EX
Received Not published18 Birkbeck Road Hutton Essex CM13 1JP
Received Not publishedLand To Rear Of 14 & 16 Priests Lane Brentwood Essex CM15 8BL
Received Not publishedOak Lodge Albyns Lane Stapleford Tawney Essex RM4 1RT
Received Not published23 Warescot Road Brentwood Essex CM15 9HF
Received Not published243 Roman Road Mountnessing Essex CM15 0UH
Received Not publishedKnaves Hall Warren Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0JG
Received Not publishedLand Ajacent To Mascalls Lane Brentwood Essex
Received Not published8 South Drive Warley Essex CM14 5DJ
Received Not published3 St Johns Avenue Warley Essex CM14 5DF
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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