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.
3,287 approved · 484 refused · 157 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1B Mount Crescent Warley Essex CM14 5DB
Received Not published33 Tor Bryan Ingatestone Essex CM4 9JZ
Received Not published63 The Gardens Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0LX
Received Not publishedBrentwood Centre Doddinghurst Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9NN
Received Not published32 Kavanaghs Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4NE
Received Not published14 Friars Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8HY
Received Not published32 Hamilton Crescent Warley Essex CM14 5ES
Received Not published8 Brook Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4PT
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To The Ford Motor Co Ltd Eagle Way Great Warley CM13 3BW
Received Not published40 London Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4QG
Received Not published40 London Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4QG
Received Not publishedThe Beeches Hubert Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4NA
Received Not published1 Mount Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2NS
Received Not publishedAvon 52 Heronway Hutton Essex CM13 2LG
Received Not publishedLand East Of Old Church Lane Mountnessing Essex
Received Not publishedMount Lodge Lower Road Mountnessing Essex CM15 0TR
Received Not publishedKiln Farm Mountnessing Road Blackmore Essex CM4 0NX
Received Not published7 Nags Head Lane Brentwood Essex CM14 5NJ
Received Not published52 Randalls Drive Hutton Essex CM13 1NN
Received Not published3 Hope Close Mountnessing Essex CM15 0TN
Received Not published26 Mascalls Lane Brentwood Essex CM14 5LR
Received Not publishedLand North Of Shenfield Alexander Lane Shenfield Essex
Received Not publishedAnglo European School Willow Green Ingatestone Essex CM4 0DJ
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To Anglo European School Playing Fields At Little Hyde Lane, Ingatestone
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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