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.
3,453 approved · 630 refused · 110 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
75 Dock Road Grays Essex RM17 6EY
Received 29 Jan 202510 Masefield Road Grays Essex RM16 2GT
Received 29 Jan 2025Land Adjacent Electricity Distribution Site The Manorway Coryton Essex
Received 29 Jan 2025210 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM16 2TH
Received 30 Jan 2025Kipling Farm Kipling Avenue Tilbury Essex
Received 30 Jan 2025Park Villa 23 Park Lane Aveley Essex RM15 4UB
Received 30 Jan 2025St Stephens Church House London Road Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM19 1QD
Received 30 Jan 202572 Francisco Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6YD
Received 30 Jan 202574 St Michaels Close Aveley Essex RM15 4SZ
Received 30 Jan 202588 St Francis Way Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4RH
Received 31 Jan 2025Central 7 The Campus Caspian Close Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 9FN
Received 31 Jan 2025Waterworks High Road Fobbing Essex SS17 9JW
Received 31 Jan 2025Walton Hall Farm Waltons Hall Road Linford Essex SS17 0RH
Received 31 Jan 2025High Fields Lower Dunton Road Bulphan Essex RM14 3TD
Received 3 Feb 2025157 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM17 5PS
Received 3 Feb 20257 Daniel Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6PR
Received 3 Feb 202583 Second Avenue Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 8DS
Received 3 Feb 2025104 Long Lane Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2PL
Received 3 Feb 2025Tilbury Green Power Port Of Tilbury Tilbury Freeport Tilbury Essex RM18 7NU
Received 3 Feb 202521 Hyde Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6RR
Received 3 Feb 2025136 Purfleet Road Aveley Essex RM15 4EA
Received 4 Feb 2025Land Adjacent Highfield And Roma Inglefield Road Fobbing Essex
Received 3 Feb 2025A P J Works Unit 11D Askews Industrial Estate Askews Farm Lane Grays Essex RM17 5XR
Received 4 Feb 2025Unit 15 And Unit 16 Cliffside Industrial Estate Askews Farm Lane Grays Essex RM17 5XR
Received 4 Feb 2025Records 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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