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.
3,224 approved · 469 refused · 154 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Flat 1 The Gate House Station Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 0BL
Received Not published31 Priory Close Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9PZ
Received Not published23 Willow Green Ingatestone Essex CM4 0DQ
Received Not publishedTreetops 3 Oakleigh Farm Rayleigh Road Hutton Essex CM13 1SE
Received Not published2 Chapel Croft Ingatestone Essex CM4 0BU
Received Not published1 Gatehouse Mews Ingatestone Essex CM4 0SY
Received Not publishedPark Farm Weald Park Way South Weald Essex CM14 5QH
Received Not publishedGreenways Hall Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 9NP
Received Not published44 Regency Court Brentwood Essex CM14 4LU
Received Not published76 Oliver Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8PZ
Received Not published21 - 27 Eastfield Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4HB
Received Not published8 High Street Ingatestone Essex CM4 9EE
Received Not published25 Shenfield Road Brentwood Essex CM15 8AG
Received Not published144 Hutton Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8NL
Received Not publishedHole Farm Hole Farm Lane Great Warley Essex CM13 3JD
Received Not publishedDagwood Farm Warren Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0JD
Received Not published47 Tor Bryan Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HL
Received Not publishedLand At Wishfields Farm Doddinghurst Brentwood Essex CM15 9SL
Received Not published126 Woodman Road Warley Essex CM14 5AL
Received Not publishedBrentwood Golf Club Coxtie Green Road Pilgrims Hatch South Weald Essex CM14 5RJ
Received Not published12 Crown Mews Ingatestone Essex CM4 0FP
Received Not publishedAsh Farm Wyatts Green Road Wyatts Green Essex CM15 0QE
Received Not publishedTrueloves Hall Trueloves Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 0NQ
Received Not published10 Jason Close Brentwood Essex CM14 4PG
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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