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.
3,197 approved · 467 refused · 152 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6B Hatch Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9PX
Received Not published130 Hawthorn Avenue Brentwood Essex CM13 2EQ
Received Not publishedWindy Nook Warley Road Great Warley Essex CM13 3HX
Received Not publishedBriarwood 64 Mount Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2PB
Received Not publishedWingrave Court Wingrave Crescent Brentwood Essex
Received Not publishedFitzwalters Farm Roman Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8SG
Received Not published253 Ongar Road Brentwood Essex CM15 9DZ
Received Not published2 St Charles Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4TS
Received Not published31 Walton Gardens Hutton Essex CM13 1EJ
Received Not published37 Greenshaw Brentwood Essex CM14 4YD
Received Not published71 Hatch Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9PU
Received Not published71 Hatch Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9PU
Received Not published71 Hatch Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9PU
Received Not publishedCoombe Warley Road Great Warley Essex CM13 3HZ
Received Not published51 Thorndon Hall Thorndon Park Ingrave Essex CM13 3RJ
Received Not publishedHeybridge House Roman Road Ingatestone Essex CM4 9AE
Received Not published10 Lodge Close Hutton Essex CM13 1SW
Received Not published104 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4AP
Received Not published104 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4AP
Received Not publishedWinged Boots (unit 2) 63 Hutton Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8JD
Received Not published4 Coombe Rise Shenfield Essex CM15 8JJ
Received Not publishedClay Hall Days Lane Pilgrims Hatch Essex
Received Not published8 Hanover Place Warley Essex CM14 5WE
Received Not published1 Fairfield Ingatestone Essex CM4 9ER
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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