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.
3,235 approved · 473 refused · 155 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Little Brook Roman Road Ingatestone Essex CM4 9EX
Received Not published3 Holden Gardens Warley Essex CM14 5AH
Received Not publishedLand At Wates Way Ongar Road Brentwood Essex
Received Not publishedCowes Farm Warren Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0JE
Received Not published4 Baymans Wood Shenfield Essex CM15 8BT
Received Not publishedThistleys Little Warley Hall Lane West Horndon Little Warley Essex CM13 3EN
Received Not published2 Felstead Close Hutton Essex CM13 1YW
Received Not publishedFurelise Brook Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0RS
Received Not published11 Queenswood Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 1HR
Received Not published25-27 (Stokes House) & 31 St Thomas Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4DF
Received Not published29 St Andrews Place Shenfield Essex CM15 8HH
Received Not publishedKeepers Cottage Tally-ho Drive Hutton Essex CM13 1SP
Received Not published117 Mayfield Gardens Brentwood Essex CM14 4UN
Received Not published10 Appletree Crescent Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0QS
Received Not publishedAdj Grassmere Horseman Side Navestock Essex
Received Not published1 Wren Place Brentwood Essex CM14 4HS
Received Not publishedColesberg Wyatts Green Road Wyatts Green Essex CM15 0PJ
Received Not published3A Wayland Games London Brentwood Commercial Park Tilbury Road West Horndon Essex CM13 3LR
Received Not publishedTradewinds 9 Challacombe Close Hutton Essex CM13 2LU
Received Not published262 Ongar Road Brentwood Essex CM15 9EA
Received Not publishedOak Glen Spring Pond Meadow Hook End Essex CM15 0NS
Received Not publishedWattons Farm Horseman Side Navestock Essex CM14 5SU
Received Not publishedLynsays Farm Beggar Hill Fryerning Essex
Received Not publishedThe Forge Navestock Side Navestock Essex CM14 5SH
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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