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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.
3,286 approved · 604 refused · 105 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Perry Way Aveley Essex RM15 4RD
Received 23 Oct 2023Highlands Hillcrest Road Horndon On The Hill Essex SS17 8LR
Received 23 Oct 2023Fleet House 148 Dock Road Tilbury Essex RM18 7BS
Received 23 Oct 20236 Belhouse Avenue Aveley Essex RM15 4BF
Received 23 Oct 202367 Chadwell Road Grays Essex RM17 5SY
Received 23 Oct 2023115 Victoria Avenue Grays Essex RM16 2RN
Received 24 Oct 2023Tykes Grosvenor Road Orsett Essex RM16 3BT
Received 25 Oct 2023Dummy Properties Outside Thurrock
Received 23 Oct 2023Land Adjacent 24 Broadhope Avenue Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 25 Oct 2023Dummy Properties Outside Thurrock
Received 25 Oct 20234 Gowers Lane Orsett Essex RM16 3AR
Received 25 Oct 202311 Elm Road Aveley Essex RM15 4SX
Received 26 Oct 2023Cranworth Love Lane Aveley Essex RM15 4JA
Received 26 Oct 202352 Scratton Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0PA
Received 26 Oct 202325 Shakespeare Avenue Tilbury Essex RM18 8AP
Received 27 Oct 2023Franks Kitchen 2 Rayleigh Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0NE
Received 27 Oct 2023Arrow Car Sales 70 London Road Grays Essex RM17 5YB
Received 27 Oct 202319 Cole Avenue Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4JN
Received 26 Oct 20234 Irvine Gardens South Ockendon Essex RM15 5JP
Received 27 Oct 202313 College Avenue Grays Essex RM17 5UW
Received 27 Oct 2023Land Including Rear Of Hollow Cottages Former Cornwall House And North Of London Road Purfleet-on-thames Essex
Received 30 Oct 2023Water Tower Guardian Avenue North Stifford Grays Essex
Received 30 Oct 2023Garage Forecourt Esso Service Station Stanford Road Grays Essex RM16 2XE
Received 30 Oct 2023James Latham PLC Unit 22 To 24 Purfleet Industrial Park Juliet Way Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM15 4YA
Received 30 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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