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.
3,240 approved · 474 refused · 155 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Yiamas Ongar Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9SS
Received Not published15 Baymans Wood Shenfield Essex CM15 8BT
Received Not publishedHole Farm Hole Farm Lane Great Warley Essex CM13 3JD
Received Not published13 Tomlyns Close Hutton Essex CM13 1PU
Received Not publishedBirley Grange 30 Hall Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 9AL
Received Not publishedMerrymeade Chase Brentwood Essex CM15 9BG
Received Not publishedDagwood Farm Warren Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0JD
Received Not published4 Flemings Great Warley Essex CM13 3DH
Received Not publishedKingfisher Farm Land South Of Dagwood Lane Doddinghurst Brentwood Essex CM15 0RX
Received Not publishedDane House 21 Mount Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2NU
Received Not publishedHazelmere North Drive Hutton Essex CM13 1SH
Received Not publishedDudbrook Hall Residential Home Dudbrook Road Navestock Essex CM14 5TQ
Received Not published2 Meadsway Great Warley Essex CM13 3DQ
Received Not published24 Weald Close Brentwood Essex CM14 4QU
Received Not publishedGarages Willingale Close Hutton Essex
Received Not published33 Westbourne Drive Brentwood Essex CM14 4PH
Received Not published8 Hanover Place Warley Essex CM14 5WE
Received Not publishedLondon Brentwood Commercial Park Tilbury Road West Horndon Essex CM13 3LR
Received Not publishedPaglesham 23 Ridgeway Hutton Essex CM13 2LP
Received Not publishedThe Laurels 4 Longaford Way Hutton Essex CM13 2LT
Received Not published37 Byron Road Hutton Essex CM13 2SA
Received Not publishedClever Clogs Day Nursery Coptfold Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4BL
Received Not publishedClever Clogs Day Nursery Coptfold Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4BL
Received Not publishedSheep House Horseman Side Navestock Essex CM14 5ST
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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