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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.
3,259 approved · 600 refused · 104 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
116 Cromwell Road Grays Essex RM17 5HW
Received 11 Aug 202347 King Edward Drive Grays Essex RM16 4AQ
Received 11 Aug 2023The Haven Third Avenue Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 8EL
Received 14 Aug 202310 King Edward Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0EF
Received 14 Aug 20231 Rigby Gardens Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4JJ
Received 14 Aug 2023Suttons Farm Waltons Hall Road Linford Essex SS17 0RH
Received 14 Aug 2023Suttons Farm Waltons Hall Road Linford Essex SS17 0RH
Received 14 Aug 2023Telecommunications Mast Chadwell Place Farm Chadwell Bypass Chadwell St Mary Essex
Received 11 Aug 202378 Cromwell Road Grays Essex RM17 5HW
Received 14 Aug 202328 Felipe Road Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6NE
Received 14 Aug 2023Land Adjacent Southover Pear Tree Cottage And Part Of Prospect Brentwood Road Bulphan Essex
Received 14 Aug 2023Tilbury Green Power Port Of Tilbury Tilbury Freeport Tilbury Essex RM18 7NU
Received 14 Aug 2023231 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM17 5PX
Received 15 Aug 202399 Orchard Road South Ockendon Essex RM15 6HJ
Received 15 Aug 20236 College Avenue Grays Essex RM17 5UH
Received 15 Aug 202352 Whitehall Road Grays Essex RM17 5NX
Received 15 Aug 202352 Whitehall Road Grays Essex RM17 5NX
Received 15 Aug 2023Thurrock Flexible Generation Plant Station Road East Tilbury Essex RM18 8QR
Received 10 Aug 2023Land Part Of 78 Courtney Road Chadwell St Mary Essex
Received 15 Aug 2023Dummy Properties Outside Thurrock
Received 16 Aug 2023South Ockendon Quarry And Landfill Site Medebridge Road South Ockendon Essex
Received 15 Aug 202347 Nethan Drive Aveley Essex RM15 4RT
Received 16 Aug 20236 Badgers Mount Orsett Essex RM16 3JB
Received 16 Aug 20233 Galsworthy Road Tilbury Essex RM18 8JS
Received 17 Aug 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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