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.
3,263 approved · 476 refused · 155 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Walnut Tree Cottage Blackmore Road Blackmore Essex CM4 0QX
Received Not published19 Kavanaghs Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4NB
Received Not publishedPlace Farm Place Farm Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0JA
Received Not published16 Docklands Avenue Ingatestone Essex CM4 9DS
Received Not published16 The Heythrop Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HG
Received Not published47 Crescent Road Warley Essex CM14 5JR
Received Not published28 Spurgate Hutton Essex CM13 2LA
Received Not publishedThe Stradbroke 2 Gainsborough Place Hutton Essex CM13 2RF
Received Not publishedShencot Alexander Lane Hutton Essex CM13 1AG
Received Not publishedShencot Alexander Lane Hutton Essex CM13 1AG
Received Not published630 Rayleigh Road Hutton Essex CM13 1SG
Received Not publishedRose And Crown 390 Ongar Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9JH
Received Not publishedThe Boars Head Billericay Road Herongate Essex CM13 3PS
Received Not publishedThe Boars Head Billericay Road Herongate Essex CM13 3PS
Received Not published3 Deal Tree Bungalows Blackmore Road Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0HU
Received Not published12 Junction Road Warley Essex CM14 5JN
Received Not published308 Ongar Road Brentwood Essex CM15 9HR
Received Not published8 Westbury Drive Brentwood Essex CM14 4JZ
Received Not published71 Petresfield Way West Horndon Essex CM13 3TG
Received Not published17 Hartswood Road Warley Essex CM14 5AA
Received Not publishedBeldams Cottage 57 Cricketers Lane Herongate Essex CM13 3QB
Received Not publishedAnglo European School Willow Green Ingatestone Essex CM4 0DJ
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To Anglo European School Playing Fields Little Hyde Lane Ingatestone Essex
Received Not published27 Cricketers Lane Herongate Essex CM13 3PZ
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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