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.
3,312 approved · 491 refused · 160 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 Post Office Road Ingatestone Essex CM4 9ES
Received Not publishedThe Stradbroke 2 Gainsborough Place Hutton Essex CM13 2RF
Received Not published1 Waterloo Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4XB
Received Not published89 Sebastian Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8PP
Received Not published18 Elmtree Avenue Kelvedon Hatch Essex CM15 0BH
Received Not published2-8 Warescot Road Brentwood CM15 9HD
Received Not published39 Hogarth Avenue Brentwood Essex CM15 8BE
Received Not publishedFlints Community Hub 154 Chelmsford Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8RT
Received Not published54 Weald Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4TH
Received Not publishedGreenwoods 68 Selwood Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4QA
Received Not published53 Tor Bryan Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HL
Received Not published13 Ongar Road Brentwood Essex CM15 9AU
Received Not publishedWestbury Road Car Park Brentwood CM14 4DJ
Received Not published30 Woodman Road Warley Essex CM14 5BE
Received Not publishedMagnolia Cottage The Retreat Hutton Essex CM13 1AN
Received Not published30 Chase Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4LG
Received Not published48 Clavering Gardens West Horndon Essex CM13 3ND
Received Not published32 Oliver Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8QA
Received Not publishedPlot 01 Brentwood Gateway Park Brook Street Brentwood CM14 5ND
Received Not publishedShencot Alexander Lane Hutton Essex CM13 1AG
Received Not publishedDagwood Farm Warren Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0JD
Received Not published4 Chafford Gardens West Horndon Essex CM13 3NJ
Received Not publishedBrook Cottage Beggar Hill Fryerning Essex CM4 0PL
Received Not published10 Britannia Road Warley Essex CM14 5LD
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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