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.
3,304 approved · 489 refused · 160 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bell Meadows 8 The Quorn Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HE
Received Not published13 The Heythrop Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HG
Received Not published9 Park Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2QL
Received Not published63 Coxtie Green Road Pilgrims Hatch South Weald Essex CM14 5PS
Received Not publishedWaterworks Spring Farm Dagwood Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0RX
Received Not published90 Sebastian Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8PP
Received Not publishedWaterworks Spring Farm Dagwood Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0RX
Received Not publishedThorndon Hall Thorndon Park Ingrave Essex
Received Not publishedIngatestone County Infant School Fryerning Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 0DF
Received Not published36 Vine Way Brentwood Essex CM14 4UU
Received Not published64 Woodway Hutton Essex CM13 2JR
Received Not publishedLand At Eagle Field Ongar Road Kelvedon Hatch Essex
Received Not publishedThe Plough Sabines Road Navestock Essex RM4 1HD
Received Not published87 Thorndon Avenue West Horndon Essex CM13 3TS
Received Not published3 Tor Bryan Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HJ
Received Not publishedGlengarry 13 The Dell Great Warley Essex CM13 3AL
Received Not publishedGlengarry 13 The Dell Great Warley Essex CM13 3AL
Received Not publishedRodingdale 2 The Row Albyns Lane Stapleford Tawney Essex RM4 1RT
Received Not publishedWellmead 84 Fryerning Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 0NN
Received Not publishedHousing Redevelopment Brookfield Close Hutton Essex
Received Not published108 Woodman Road Warley Essex CM14 5AZ
Received Not publishedHousing Redevelopment Brookfield Close Hutton Essex
Received Not published31 Spurgate Hutton Essex CM13 2JS
Received Not published54 Priests Lane Brentwood Essex CM15 8BY
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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