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 Thurrock Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,216 approved · 589 refused · 103 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Nov 2016 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
91 Tamar Drive Aveley Essex RM15 4NA
Received 20 Apr 2023Greenwise Nurseries Vange Park Road Vange Essex SS16 5LA
Received 20 Apr 2023Land Adjacent 107 Humber Avenue South Ockendon Essex
Received 20 Apr 202344 Fulbrook Lane South Ockendon Essex RM15 5JY
Received 21 Apr 2023136 Long Lane Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2PS
Received 21 Apr 202354 Prospect Place Grays Essex RM17 6BY
Received 24 Apr 2023The Rectory The Green Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0EP
Received 24 Apr 2023Fairfield Orsett Road Horndon On The Hill Essex SS17 8NR
Received 24 Apr 2023269 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM17 5PR
Received 24 Apr 2023The KARA Meze Lounge Fleming Road Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6HH
Received 24 Apr 2023Norths Rectory Road Orsett Essex RM16 3JU
Received 24 Apr 2023110 King Edward Drive Grays Essex RM16 2GD
Received 24 Apr 2023Sunnyside Inglefield Road Fobbing Essex SS17 9HW
Received 24 Apr 2023198 Long Lane Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2PU
Received 25 Apr 202314 Frobisher Gardens Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6EJ
Received 25 Apr 202310 Chestnut Avenue Grays Essex RM16 2UJ
Received 25 Apr 2023Storage Yard 25A Broadway Grays Essex RM17 6EW
Received 25 Apr 2023The Briars South Avenue Langdon Hills Essex SS16 6JG
Received 25 Apr 2023Unit 610 The Quay Intu Lakeside West Thurrock Way West Thurrock Essex RM20 2AD
Received 25 Apr 2023Development Land East Of Caspian Way And North And South Of London Road Purfleet-on-Thames Essex
Received 25 Apr 2023Purfleet Railway Station Railway Line And Land Adjacent London Road Purfleet-on-Thames Essex
Received 25 Apr 2023Innovation And Technology Centre Land Adjacent Vopak Oil Terminal Burnley Road West Thurrock Essex
Received 25 Apr 2023440 London Road West Thurrock Essex RM20 4AR
Received 25 Apr 202393 Belhouse Avenue Aveley Essex RM15 4DA
Received 26 Apr 2023Records 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
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 Thurrock 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.
Check collection coverage