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3,312 approved · 491 refused · 161 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
18 Hill Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4QY
Received Not published18 Hill Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4QY
Received Not published19 Cedar Road Hutton Essex CM13 1NB
Received Not publishedLegh Cottage Horseman Side Navestock Essex RM4 1DN
Received Not published279 Chelmsford Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8SD
Received Not publishedThe Brentwood Garden Centre Vicarage Close Brenwood Essex CM14 5GR
Received Not publishedFormer British Gas Site St James Road Brentwood Essex
Received Not publishedClare House Warley Lea Farm Warley Road Great Warley Essex CM13 3HT
Received Not publishedSt Josephs Convent Of Mercy 93 Queens Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4EY
Received Not publishedEmbers Fryerning Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 0GF
Received Not published8 Hanover Place Warley Essex CM14 5WE
Received Not published65 Chelmsford Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8QU
Received Not published5 Station Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 0BP
Received Not publishedBlencathra 15 Wakelin Chase Ingatestone Essex CM4 9HH
Received Not publishedSilvanus 19 Harpers Lane Doddinghurst Essex CM15 0RL
Received Not publishedGlengarry 13 The Dell Great Warley Essex CM13 3AL
Received Not published22 Burses Way Hutton Essex CM13 2PL
Received Not publishedHall Farm House Hall Lane Ingatestone Essex CM4 9NP
Received Not publishedThe Lyches Greenway Hutton Essex CM13 2NR
Received Not publishedAquilla Row Clive Road Great Warley Essex
Received Not publishedWarley Hall Magpie Lane Little Warley Essex CM13 3DT
Received Not published56 Queens Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4HD
Received Not published225 Brentwood Road Herongate Essex CM13 3PL
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To Four Candles 91 Hanging Hill Lane Hutton Essex CM13 2HG
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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