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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.
3,425 approved · 624 refused · 109 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
43 Lenthall Avenue Grays Essex RM17 5AT
Received 16 Oct 2024North Court 26 Purfleet Road Aveley Essex
Received 16 Oct 2024Avondale Inglefield Road Fobbing Essex SS17 9HW
Received 16 Oct 2024Mersworth Herga Hyll Orsett Essex RM16 3JA
Received 16 Oct 2024Balgownie Farm Lower Dunton Road Bulphan Essex RM14 3TD
Received 17 Oct 2024Lane Adjacent Bulgenen House And Wick Place Cottage Brentwood Road Bulphan Essex
Received 14 Oct 202448 Hathaway Road Grays Essex RM17 5LA
Received 17 Oct 2024Former VOSA Site Tank Hill Road Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM19 1SX
Received 17 Oct 2024Amazon Windrush Road Tilbury Essex RM18 7EE
Received 17 Oct 2024Waterlily 1 Rogers Road Grays Essex RM17 5NU
Received 18 Oct 202414 Love Lane Aveley Essex RM15 4JA
Received 18 Oct 2024Telecommunications Mast Blackshots Lane Grays Essex
Received 18 Oct 202427 Central Avenue Corringham Essex SS17 7PH
Received 21 Oct 202441 Meadow Drive Aveley Essex RM15 4DY
Received 21 Oct 202415 Ward Avenue Grays Essex RM17 5RE
Received 21 Oct 202450 Wood View Grays Essex RM17 5TF
Received 21 Oct 2024Chestnut Lodge 12 Warren Heights Grays Essex RM16 6YH
Received 21 Oct 2024Copper Beech 13 Warren Heights Grays Essex RM16 6YH
Received 21 Oct 2024Portland Lodge Brentwood Road Bulphan Essex RM14 3TJ
Received 21 Oct 2024Aveley House Arcany Road South Ockendon Essex
Received 22 Oct 2024Monarchs Childcare Partnership 64 Whitehall Lane Grays Essex RM17 6SH
Received 22 Oct 20247 The Green South Ockendon Essex RM15 6SD
Received 22 Oct 202435 Chelmer Drive South Ockendon Essex RM15 6EE
Received 22 Oct 2024Transmec Uk London Road West Thurrock Essex RM20 3LH
Received 23 Oct 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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