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.
3,210 approved · 469 refused · 153 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
308 Ongar Road Brentwood Essex CM15 9HR
Received Not publishedDabbs Farm Mill Lane Navestock Essex RM4 1ET
Received Not published23 Westwood Avenue Brentwood Essex CM14 4PA
Received Not published35 Docklands Avenue Ingatestone Essex CM4 9EQ
Received Not publishedCedar Lodge 79 Worrin Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8JL
Received Not publishedWaterfront The Green Blackmore Essex CM4 0RT
Received Not publishedClay Hall Days Lane Pilgrims Hatch Essex
Received Not published118 Shenfield Place Shenfield Essex CM15 9AG
Received Not published117 Shenfield Place Shenfield Essex CM15 9AG
Received Not published33 Tor Bryan Ingatestone Essex CM4 9JZ
Received Not published36 Church Road Mountnessing Essex CM15 0TH
Received Not publishedScarlet Oak Roundwood Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2ND
Received Not publishedArgyll Court Sawyers Hall Lane Brentwood Essex
Received Not published234 Priests Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 8LG
Received Not published72 Woodland Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 1HH
Received Not published2 La Plata Grove Brentwood Essex CM14 4LA
Received Not published98 Thorndon Avenue West Horndon Essex CM13 3TS
Received Not published94 High Street & 1 Market Place Ingatestone Essex CM4 0BA
Received Not published51 William Hunter Way Brentwood Essex CM14 4WQ
Received Not published86 Shenfield Place Shenfield Essex CM15 9AJ
Received Not publishedValhalla Thorndon Approach Herongate Essex CM13 3PA
Received Not publishedClybourne 6 Longaford Way Hutton Essex CM13 2LT
Received Not published2 Larchwood Gardens Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9NE
Received Not publishedThe Tiding Magpie Lane Little Warley Essex CM13 3DZ
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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Understanding planning · 13 min read
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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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