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.
3,233 approved · 596 refused · 103 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
O'Cianain Prince Charles Avenue Orsett Essex RM16 3HS
Received 20 Jun 20238 Mill Cottages High Road Fobbing Essex SS17 9HZ
Received 20 Jun 20236 Harper Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6DA
Received 21 Jun 202330 Stanford Road Grays Essex RM16 4XS
Received 21 Jun 202336 Carew Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6RZ
Received 14 Jun 2023Dummy Properties Outside Thurrock
Received 19 Jun 2023Dummy Properties Outside Thurrock
Received 19 Jun 2023Unit 255 Lakeside Shopping Centre West Thurrock Way West Thurrock Essex RM20 2ZQ
Received 21 Jun 2023231 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM17 5PX
Received 22 Jun 2023231 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM17 5PX
Received 22 Jun 2023Prosbus Hall High Road Fobbing Essex SS17 9JH
Received 22 Jun 2023The Kings Arms Stifford Clays Road Orsett Essex RM16 3LX
Received 22 Jun 202310 College Way Grays Essex RM16 2EF
Received 22 Jun 2023Baker Street Mills Stifford Clays Road Orsett Essex RM16 3LX
Received 19 Jun 2023Hobletts Nursery Green Lane Stifford Clays Grays Essex
Received 23 Jun 2023Innovation And Technology Centre Land Adjacent Vopak Oil Terminal Burnley Road West Thurrock Essex
Received 23 Jun 2023149 Mollands Lane South Ockendon Essex RM15 6DL
Received 23 Jun 2023Premier Panel Experts Millennium House Units 21 And 23 Thurrock Commercial Centre Juliet Way Purfleet-on-Thames Essex RM15 4YA
Received 23 Jun 202389 Sabina Road Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4PN
Received 23 Jun 20232 Crescent Walk Aveley Essex RM15 4HP
Received 26 Jun 202318 Kingsman Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0JW
Received 26 Jun 2023Dacia High Road Fobbing Essex SS17 9JJ
Received 26 Jun 202340 Fleethall Grove Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2DY
Received 26 Jun 2023Land Adjacent Masefield Road Properties Blackshots Stadium And 44 Stanford Road Grays Essex
Received 26 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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