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.
3,229 approved · 594 refused · 103 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
78 Cromwell Road Grays Essex RM17 5HW
Received 5 Jun 202315 Copper Beech Road South Ockendon Essex RM15 6QS
Received 5 Jun 202318 Chafford Way Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2EB
Received 5 Jun 202360 Archates Avenue Grays Essex RM16 6QS
Received 5 Jun 202399A High Road Orsett Essex RM16 3LD
Received 5 Jun 2023Mersworth Herga Hyll Orsett Essex RM16 3JA
Received 5 Jun 202350 Whitehall Road Grays Essex RM17 5NX
Received 5 Jun 202324 The Green Orsett Essex RM16 3EX
Received 5 Jun 2023The Old Courthouse Orsett Road Grays Essex RM17 5DD
Received 6 Jun 2023The Hollies Rectory Road Orsett Essex RM16 3EH
Received 6 Jun 2023DP World London Gateway Logistics Park London Gateway Drive Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 5 Jun 2023Procter & Gamble Product Supply (Uk) Ltd Hedley Avenue West Thurrock Essex RM20 4AL
Received 6 Jun 2023Telecommunications Equipment Springhouse Road Corringham Essex
Received 5 Jun 20235 St Stephens Crescent Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4AU
Received 6 Jun 2023Innovation And Technology Centre Land Adjacent Vopak Oil Terminal Burnley Road West Thurrock Essex
Received 6 Jun 2023Innovation And Technology Centre Land Adjacent Vopak Oil Terminal Burnley Road West Thurrock Essex
Received 6 Jun 20232 Rookery View Grays Essex RM17 6AS
Received 7 Jun 2023National Power PLC Tilbury Power Station Fort Road Tilbury Essex RM18 8UJ
Received 6 Jun 2023Shea International 31 King Street Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0HJ
Received 7 Jun 20236 Brennan Road Tilbury Essex RM18 8AJ
Received 7 Jun 2023Ormiston Park Academy Belhus Park Lane Aveley Essex RM15 4RU
Received 7 Jun 202315 Churchill Road Grays Essex RM17 6TW
Received 7 Jun 2023Marks & Spencer Weston Avenue West Thurrock Essex RM20 3LJ
Received 7 Jun 202318 Brandon Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6QX
Received 7 Jun 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.
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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.
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