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.
3,204 approved · 469 refused · 152 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
346 Ongar Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9JH
Received Not published34 Hillside Walk Brentwood Essex CM14 4RB
Received Not published52 Tor Bryan Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HN
Received Not published1 London Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4QP
Received Not publishedBT Building 1 London Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4QP
Received Not published25 Shenfield Road Brentwood Essex CM15 8AG
Received Not published1 London Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4QP
Received Not published177 Crescent Road Warley Essex CM14 5JB
Received Not published79 Warley Hill Warley Essex CM14 5HN
Received Not published2 Wash Road Hutton Essex CM13 1BZ
Received Not publishedLand At Wates Way Wates Way Brentwood Essex
Received Not publishedWarley Hall Magpie Lane Little Warley Essex CM13 3DT
Received Not publishedBrentwood Preparatory School Shenfield Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8BD
Received Not published249 Ongar Road Brentwood Essex CM15 9DZ
Received Not published1 Tor Bryan Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HJ
Received Not publishedBrentwood County High School Seven Arches Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4JF
Received Not publishedUnit F3 Hubert Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4JE
Received Not publishedLand At Beggar Hill Beggar Hill Fryerning Essex
Received Not publishedWynbarns Farm 148 Chelmsford Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8RT
Received Not published7 Birkbeck Road Hutton Essex CM13 1JP
Received Not publishedLand East Of Nags Head Lane Nags Head Lane Brentwood Essex
Received Not published19 St Lawrence Gardens Blackmore Essex CM4 0RB
Received Not published1A Guardsman Close Warley Essex CM14 5AT
Received Not published1A Guardsman Close Warley Essex CM14 5AT
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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