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.
3,431 approved · 625 refused · 110 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
48 Heath Road Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4UT
Received 22 Nov 202448 Heath Road Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4UT
Received 22 Nov 2024El Paso Lower Dunton Road Bulphan Essex RM14 3TD
Received 22 Nov 20242 Deveron Gardens South Ockendon Essex RM15 5ET
Received 25 Nov 2024Harris Academy Riverside London Road Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM19 1QY
Received 25 Nov 202439 Templer Avenue Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4EL
Received 25 Nov 202494 Stifford Clays Road Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2DS
Received 26 Nov 202478 Victoria Avenue Grays Essex RM16 2RW
Received 26 Nov 202442 Stanley Road Grays Essex RM17 6QX
Received 26 Nov 202427 Hanford Road Aveley Essex RM15 4SS
Received 26 Nov 202415 St Chads Road Tilbury Essex RM18 8LA
Received 26 Nov 2024Ell A Mar 245 Branksome Avenue Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 8DF
Received 26 Nov 2024West Tilbury Hall Church Road West Tilbury Essex RM18 8UB
Received 26 Nov 202473 Wood Avenue Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM19 1TL
Received 27 Nov 20244 Shelford Close Orsett Essex RM16 3HN
Received 27 Nov 2024Land Adjacent Fen Farm Judds Farm And Part Of Bulphan Fen Harrow Lane Bulphan Essex
Received 27 Nov 2024E And B Pets 24 Corringham Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0AH
Received 28 Nov 202440 Fairway Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2AD
Received 29 Nov 202443 Scratton Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0PA
Received 29 Nov 2024Kemps Farm Dennises Lane South Ockendon Essex RM15 5SD
Received 29 Nov 2024Land Adjacent Vopak Oil Terminal Burnley Road West Thurrock Essex
Received 29 Nov 20243 Cabborns Crescent Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0EA
Received 29 Nov 202450 Giffordside Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4JA
Received 29 Nov 20249 The Rookery West Thurrock Essex RM20 3HB
Received 2 Dec 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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