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.
3,282 approved · 602 refused · 105 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St Giles And All Saints Church High Road Orsett Essex RM16 3ER
Received 4 Oct 2023St Peters And St Pauls Church Orsett Road Horndon On The Hill Essex SS17 8NS
Received 4 Oct 202355 Long Lane Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2PL
Received 4 Oct 20231 Brandon Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6QX
Received 4 Oct 2023DHL Central 4 Baltic Avenue Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 9FF
Received 4 Oct 2023210 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM16 2TH
Received 4 Oct 2023House Of Fraser Unit 200 Intu Lakeside West Thurrock Way West Thurrock Essex RM20 2ZQ
Received 4 Oct 202334 Bankfoot Grays Essex RM17 5JA
Received 5 Oct 2023Cladding UK Ltd 12 London Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0LL
Received 5 Oct 20234 Gowers Lane Orsett Essex RM16 3AR
Received 5 Oct 202358 Wallace Road Grays Essex RM17 5BA
Received 6 Oct 2023Land Adjacent Adstock Way Pagette Way Bankfoot And Hogg Lane Grays Essex
Received 6 Oct 202314 Francis Close Horndon On The Hill Essex SS17 8NT
Received 6 Oct 2023Hair Line 231 London Road Grays Essex RM17 5YS
Received 6 Oct 2023Land At 520 London Road West Thurrock Essex RM20 3BJ
Received 6 Oct 2023Thurrock Flexible Generation Plant Station Road East Tilbury Essex RM18 8QR
Received 6 Oct 20237 Blackthorne Close Bulphan Essex RM14 3ED
Received 9 Oct 2023269 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM17 5PR
Received 9 Oct 20232A Rowley Road Orsett Essex RM16 3ET
Received 6 Oct 2023Fen Farm Cottages Fen Lane Bulphan Essex RM14 3RH
Received 10 Oct 2023Coryton Energy Co Ltd Coryton Power Station The Manorway Coryton Essex SS17 9GN
Received 9 Oct 202310 Henry De Grey Close Grays Essex RM17 5GH
Received 11 Oct 2023Sims Environmental And Recycling Services Ltd Burrows Farm Brentwood Road Bulphan Essex RM14 3TL
Received 11 Oct 20232 Sylvan Close Grays Essex RM16 6YQ
Received 11 Oct 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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