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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.
3,469 approved · 630 refused · 112 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lidl St Chads Road Tilbury Essex
Received 18 Feb 2025Lidl St Chads Road Tilbury Essex
Received 18 Feb 20252 Hazel Gardens Grays Essex RM16 2GA
Received 18 Feb 202558 Cowper Avenue Tilbury Essex RM18 8AS
Received 18 Feb 20252 Hazel Gardens Grays Essex RM16 2GA
Received 18 Feb 202512 St Georges Avenue Grays Essex RM17 5XB
Received 19 Feb 202512 St Georges Avenue Grays Essex RM17 5XB
Received 19 Feb 202544 Newburgh Road Grays Essex RM17 6UG
Received 19 Feb 2025Lidl St Chads Road Tilbury Essex
Received 19 Feb 2025162 South Road South Ockendon Essex RM15 6BX
Received 19 Feb 202517 Northfields Grays Essex RM17 5TN
Received 20 Feb 202510 Northlands Close Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 8DL
Received 20 Feb 20254 Wentworth Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0FD
Received 20 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 20 Feb 20251 Kerry Road Grays Essex RM16 2QJ
Received 21 Feb 2025Unit 5 Thurrock Commercial Centre Juliet Way Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM15 4YG
Received 21 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 21 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 21 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 21 Feb 202511 Crawford Avenue Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2AS
Received 21 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 21 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 21 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 21 Feb 2025Magno Cafe 535 London Road South Stifford Grays Essex RM20 4AD
Received 21 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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