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.
3,301 approved · 489 refused · 160 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Oaklands Park Hutton Essex CM13 2LW
Received Not publishedEntire Land East Of A128 South Of A127 Tilbury Road West Horndon Essex
Received Not publishedEntire Land East Of A128 South Of A127 Tilbury Road West Horndon Essex
Received Not published3 Albany Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9PJ
Received Not published16 La Plata Grove Brentwood Essex CM14 4LA
Received Not publishedFryerning Fisheries Dog Kennel Lane Fryerning Essex CM4 0EA
Received Not published2 Borromeo Way Brentwood Essex CM14 4GU
Received Not publishedSharrow Alexander Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 8QE
Received Not publishedLand North Of Shenfield Alexander Lane Shenfield Essex
Received Not publishedPark House 259 Brentwood Road Herongate Essex CM13 3LH
Received Not published143 Priests Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 8HJ
Received Not publishedGarages Highwood Close Brentwood Essex
Received Not publishedEntire Land East Of A128 South Of A127 Tilbury Road West Horndon Essex
Received Not publishedLand Off Chelmsford Road Shenfield
Received Not publishedGarages Willingale Close Hutton Essex
Received Not publishedBraehead 27 Ridgeway Hutton Essex CM13 2LP
Received Not publishedThe Woodbines Fingrith Hall Road Blackmore Essex CM4 0RU
Received Not published4B Fryerning Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 0DA
Received Not publishedEntire Land East Of A128 South Of A127 Tilbury Road West Horndon Essex
Received Not publishedThe Woodbines Fingrith Hall Road Blackmore Essex CM4 0RU
Received Not publishedBrigg Garden Centre Ongar Road Kelvedon Hatch Essex CM15 0LB
Received Not publishedLand North Of Shenfield Alexander Lane Shenfield Essex
Received Not published3 Holden Gardens Warley Essex CM14 5AH
Received Not publishedSunnyside 18 Burnthouse Lane Mountnessing Essex CM4 9AN
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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