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.
3,306 approved · 489 refused · 160 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land North Of Shenfield Alexander Lane Shenfield Essex
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To BP Garage 297 Chelmsford Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8SD
Received Not publishedLand North Of Shenfield Alexander Lane Shenfield Essex
Received Not publishedLand North Of Shenfield Alexander Lane Shenfield Essex
Received Not published154 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4AT
Received Not publishedJackalberry Marlborough Road Pilgrims Hatch Essex CM15 9LN
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To The Acorns Wrights Lane Wyatts Green Brentwood
Received Not published10 & 12 Junction Road Brentwood CM14 5JN
Received Not published1 & 2 Randalls Farm Cottages Murthering Lane Navestock Essex RM4 1HD
Received Not published172 Hanging Hill Lane Hutton Essex CM13 2HE
Received Not publishedKingsgate 25 Shenfield Gardens Hutton Essex CM13 1DT
Received Not published5 Edwards Close Hutton Essex CM13 1BU
Received Not publishedKelvedon Hall Kelvedon Hall Lane Kelvedon Hatch Essex CM14 5TN
Received Not publishedWagtails 70 Fryerning Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 0NN
Received Not publishedLand Off Chelmsford Road Shenfield
Received Not publishedThree Hedges Roundwood Avenue Hutton Essex CM13 2NA
Received Not publishedLand To The Rear Of 32 Park Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4TX
Received Not publishedThe George And Dragon Public House 294 Roman Road Mountnessing Essex CM15 0TZ
Received Not publishedThe George And Dragon Public House 294 Roman Road Mountnessing Essex CM15 0TZ
Received Not publishedBrentwood School Ingrave Road Brentwood Essex CM15 8AS
Received Not published7 Brickfield Cottages Priests Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 8HP
Received Not publishedDagwood Farm Warren Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0JD
Received Not published63 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4RH
Received Not published63 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4RH
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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