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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.
3,367 approved · 615 refused · 107 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
45 Harvey Grays Essex RM16 2TX
Received 18 Mar 202445 Harvey Grays Essex RM16 2TX
Received 18 Mar 2024114 Cromwell Road Grays Essex RM17 5HW
Received 18 Mar 202433 Moore Avenue Tilbury Essex RM18 8DP
Received 18 Mar 202438 Gilbert Road Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6NR
Received 19 Mar 202418 Victory Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6RT
Received 19 Mar 2024Marshalls Cottage Blue Anchor Lane West Tilbury Essex RM18 8TT
Received 19 Mar 202476 High Street Grays Essex RM17 6HU
Received 18 Mar 2024Sleepy Hollow Chadwell Road Grays Essex RM17 5TG
Received 19 Mar 2024Chadwell Area Housing Office 8 Linford Road Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4JY
Received 19 Mar 202421A Southend Road Grays Essex RM17 5NH
Received 19 Mar 2024Development Land East Of Caspian Way And North And South Of London Road Purfleet-on-thames Essex
Received 19 Mar 20241 Thorley Road Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2AU
Received 19 Mar 202418 Bellmaine Avenue Corringham Essex SS17 7TB
Received 20 Mar 2024Acclaim Handling PLC Ellisam House Unit 35D Purfleet Industrial Park Juliet Way Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM15 4YA
Received 20 Mar 2024Procter & Gamble Product Supply (Uk) Ltd Hedley Avenue West Thurrock Essex RM20 4AL
Received 20 Mar 20247 Parkway Corringham Essex SS17 9BY
Received 20 Mar 20246 Feenan Highway Tilbury Essex RM18 8JJ
Received 20 Mar 202429 Williamsons Way Corringham Essex SS17 7RT
Received 21 Mar 2024Jemaine 3 Branksome Avenue Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 8AZ
Received 21 Mar 2024Sports Ground And Former Firemans Club Purfleet Road Aveley Essex
Received 21 Mar 2024Police Station Darenth Lane South Ockendon Essex RM15 5LJ
Received 21 Mar 2024Aveley House Arcany Road South Ockendon Essex
Received 21 Mar 202495 Mollands Lane South Ockendon Essex RM15 6DJ
Received 21 Mar 2024Records 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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