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.
3,272 approved · 481 refused · 155 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Burntwood Way Brentwood Essex CM14 4GH
Received Not published16 Princes Way Hutton Essex CM13 2JN
Received Not publishedCastleton Days Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 9SL
Received Not publishedFlints Community Hub 154 Chelmsford Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8RT
Received Not publishedBarge Ingatestone Road Blackmore Essex CM4 0RS
Received Not publishedSplinters 170 Brentwood Road Herongate Essex CM13 3PF
Received Not published3 Janmead Hutton Essex CM13 2PU
Received Not publishedThe Horse And Groom Warley Road Great Warley Essex CM13 3AE
Received Not publishedMerriville Chivers Road Stondon Massey Essex CM15 0LH
Received Not published46 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4AN
Received Not publishedBrentwood Centre Doddinghurst Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9NN
Received Not publishedThe Mesken 570 Rayleigh Road Hutton Essex CM13 1SG
Received Not published22 Sylvia Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2HP
Received Not publishedLand East Of Alexander Lane Alexander Lane Shenfield CM15 8QE
Received Not publishedColmar Farm Weald Park Way South Weald Essex CM14 5QH
Received Not published63 The Chase Seven Arches Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4JJ
Received Not publishedLarkins Playing Fields Ongar Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex
Received Not published159 Thorndon Avenue West Horndon Essex CM13 3TP
Received Not publishedLidl Site Former Wates Way Industrial Estate Land Bounded By Ongar Road And Burland Road Brentwood CM15 9AZ
Received Not published9 Bakers Mews Ingatestone Essex CM4 0BX
Received Not publishedOrchard Cottage Thorndon Park Warley Essex CM13 3SA
Received Not published12 Pilgrims Close Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9RQ
Received Not published12 Pilgrims Close Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9RQ
Received Not published16 Ridgeway Hutton Essex CM13 2LP
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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