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.
3,291 approved · 487 refused · 159 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
De Rougemont Manor Great Warley Street Great Warley Essex CM13 3JP
Received Not publishedHou Hatch Lodge Weald Road South Weald Essex CM14 5QU
Received Not publishedWimborne House Fryerning Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 0GF
Received Not publishedStokes House 25-27 & 29-31 St Thomas Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4DF
Received Not published45 Rose Valley Brentwood Essex CM14 4HT
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To The Ford Motor Co Ltd Eagle Way Great Warley CM13 3BW
Received Not published152 Rayleigh Road Hutton Essex CM13 1BP
Received Not published43 Hutton Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8NF
Received Not publishedOaktrees Little Warley Hall Lane Little Warley Essex CM13 3EX
Received Not published21A Chelmsford Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8RB
Received Not publishedOld Brentwoods Ashwells Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9SE
Received Not published8 Middle Road Ingrave Essex CM13 3QS
Received Not published103 Priests Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 8HJ
Received Not publishedAnglo European School Willow Green Ingatestone Essex CM4 0DJ
Received Not published1 Burses Way Hutton Essex CM13 2PL
Received Not published97 Roman Road Mountnessing Essex CM15 0UD
Received Not published23 Westwood Avenue Brentwood Essex CM14 4PA
Received Not published5 - 7 Hatch Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9PU
Received Not publishedBellrope Cottage Ongar Road Stondon Massey Essex CM15 0LE
Received Not published214 Post Office Hutton Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8NR
Received Not publishedIngleton House Stock Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 9DY
Received Not publishedMount Lodge Lower Road Mountnessing Essex CM15 0TR
Received Not publishedLand North Of Shenfield Alexander Lane Shenfield Essex
Received Not publishedFieldway Spring Pond Meadow Hook End Essex CM15 0NS
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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