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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.
3,232 approved · 596 refused · 103 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent Wood View And Chadwell Road Grays Essex
Received 8 Jun 2023Somers Heath Primary School Foyle Drive South Ockendon Essex RM15 5LX
Received 8 Jun 202361 Buxton Road Grays Essex RM16 2WU
Received 9 Jun 2023Brewers Farm Brentwood Road Orsett Essex
Received 9 Jun 2023Tall Trees 106 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM16 2UL
Received 9 Jun 2023Berwood College Avenue Grays Essex RM17 5UN
Received 9 Jun 2023Land Adjacent To Sub Station For Telecommunications Mast And Equipment Cabinate Port Of Tilbury Tilbury Freeport Tilbury Essex
Received 9 Jun 2023Innovation And Technology Centre Land Adjacent Vopak Oil Terminal Burnley Road West Thurrock Essex
Received 9 Jun 202338 London Road Tilbury Essex RM18 8DU
Received 9 Jun 2023212 Rectory Road Grays Essex RM17 5SN
Received 9 Jun 202326 Birchfield North Stifford Grays Essex RM16 5UX
Received 9 Jun 202343 High Road North Stifford Grays Essex RM16 5UF
Received 9 Jun 2023115 Francisco Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6YE
Received 12 Jun 2023114 Bridge Road Grays Essex RM17 6DA
Received 12 Jun 2023North Stifford Off Licence 7 Browns Cottages High Road North Stifford Grays Essex RM16 5UH
Received 12 Jun 2023111 Southend Road Grays Essex RM17 5NW
Received 12 Jun 202396 Cherwell Grove South Ockendon Essex RM15 6AS
Received 12 Jun 202326 St Michaels Close Aveley Essex RM15 4SZ
Received 12 Jun 202310 Brandon Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6QX
Received 13 Jun 2023217 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM17 5PX
Received 14 Jun 2023Procter & Gamble Product Supply (Uk) Ltd Hedley Avenue West Thurrock Essex RM20 4AL
Received 14 Jun 2023Emergency Access For Industrial Chemicals Hedley Avenue West Thurrock Essex
Received 14 Jun 202310 Oxford Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0NA
Received 14 Jun 2023142 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM16 2UD
Received 14 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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