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.
3,394 approved · 620 refused · 108 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Nov 2016 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Dawley Green South Ockendon Essex RM15 5LW
Received 3 Jul 2024Brewers Farm Brentwood Road Orsett Essex
Received 3 Jul 202418 Chestnut Avenue Grays Essex RM16 2UJ
Received 4 Jul 2024184 Daiglen Drive South Ockendon Essex RM15 5AL
Received 4 Jul 202434 Rookery View Grays Essex RM17 6AT
Received 4 Jul 202416 Park Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0LR
Received 5 Jul 202420 York Avenue Corringham Essex SS17 7NN
Received 5 Jul 202430 Lander Road Grays Essex RM17 6AX
Received 8 Jul 202424 Harper Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6DA
Received 8 Jul 2024545 London Road South Stifford Grays Essex
Received 8 Jul 202456 Central Avenue Corringham Essex SS17 7NG
Received 9 Jul 202416 Dove Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6ES
Received 9 Jul 202494 Heath View Road Grays Essex RM16 2RT
Received 10 Jul 202412 Malthouse Drive Grays Essex RM17 5FA
Received 10 Jul 2024Telecommunications Mast Glen Haven Southend Road Corringham Essex
Received 10 Jul 202417 Berwood Road Corringham Essex SS17 7QX
Received 11 Jul 202427 Stifford Road Aveley Essex RM15 4BS
Received 11 Jul 202421 Shannon Way Aveley Essex RM15 4QX
Received 11 Jul 2024Anne Mullen Vet Clinic 106 High Street Aveley Essex RM15 4BX
Received 12 Jul 2024Tilbury Football Club St Chads Road Tilbury Essex RM18 8NL
Received 12 Jul 2024Land And Workshop Rear Of 14 London Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0LE
Received 12 Jul 2024Passenger Ferry Landing Stage Ferry Road Tilbury Essex
Received 12 Jul 2024Passenger Ferry Landing Stage Ferry Road Tilbury Essex
Received 12 Jul 202483 Chadwell Road Grays Essex RM17 5TQ
Received 15 Jul 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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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