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.
3,226 approved · 471 refused · 154 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 Kensington Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9LG
Received Not publishedHallwood Brentwood
Received Not publishedThe Lyches Greenway Hutton Essex CM13 2NR
Received Not publishedGernons 66 Fryerning Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 0NN
Received Not publishedLand Between Brooklands And 21 Rectory Chase Doddinghurst Essex
Received Not publishedHazelmere North Drive Hutton Essex CM13 1SH
Received Not published12 Baymans Wood Shenfield Essex CM15 8BT
Received Not published37 Westbourne Drive Brentwood Essex CM14 4PH
Received Not publishedHole Farm Hole Farm Lane Great Warley Essex CM13 3JD
Received Not publishedHogarth County Junior School Riseway Brentwood Essex CM15 8BG
Received Not publishedHogarth County Junior School Riseway Brentwood Essex CM15 8BG
Received Not published25 Brook Street Brentwood Essex CM14 5LZ
Received Not publishedMast Ea Orange Site At Rocketts Farm Tq 56340 9317 Weald Road South Weald Essex
Received Not published14 Rochford Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8QN
Received Not published15 Coleridge Walk Hutton Essex CM13 2RT
Received Not publishedWest Horndon County Primary School Thorndon Avenue West Horndon Essex CM13 3TR
Received Not publishedThe Forge Navestock Side Navestock Essex CM14 5SH
Received Not publishedNorton House 33 Fryerning Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 0DD
Received Not published2 Ridgeway Ingatestone Essex CM4 9AS
Received Not published36 Oliver Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8QA
Received Not published2 Westbury Drive Brentwood Essex CM14 4JZ
Received Not published1 Lindsey Close Brentwood Essex CM14 4PN
Received Not published1 Warley Mount Warley Essex CM14 5EP
Received Not publishedLand At Brizes Corner Field Blackmore Road Kelvedon Hatch Essex
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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