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.
3,529 approved · 646 refused · 115 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Oak Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM17 5RZ
Received 9 Jun 2025Prospect Brentwood Road Bulphan Essex RM14 3SP
Received 9 Jun 2025Lidl St Chads Road Tilbury Essex
Received 9 Jun 2025Berth 40A Port Of Tilbury Tilbury Freeport Tilbury Essex RM18 7EH
Received 9 Jun 2025Dummy Properties Outside Thurrock
Received 5 Jun 2025Southfields Grosvenor Road Orsett Essex
Received 10 Jun 2025Telecommunications Mast Fort Road Tilbury Essex
Received 6 Jun 2025Arena Essex And Fishing Lake Arterial Road Purfleet-on-thames Essex
Received 10 Jun 2025Land Adjacent 12 On West Side Of Tenants Row Tilbury Freeport Tilbury
Received 10 Jun 202562 Palmerston Road South Stifford Grays Essex RM20 4YR
Received 11 Jun 202511 River View Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4DH
Received 6 Jun 202568 Anton Road South Ockendon Essex RM15 5AU
Received 11 Jun 2025112 Victoria Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0HY
Received 11 Jun 2025Willow House 135 Mollands Lane South Ockendon Essex RM15 6DL
Received 11 Jun 202514 Russel Road Grays Essex RM17 5JX
Received 11 Jun 202514 Russel Road Grays Essex RM17 5JX
Received 11 Jun 202514 Russel Road Grays Essex RM17 5JX
Received 11 Jun 20259 Farrow Gardens Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2EU
Received 12 Jun 202514 Russel Road Grays Essex RM17 5JX
Received 12 Jun 2025Recreation Ground Grove Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 12 Jun 2025231 Blackshots Lane Grays Essex RM16 2LP
Received 12 Jun 202549 Flint Street West Thurrock Essex RM20 3HA
Received 13 Jun 2025Telecommunications Mast Fort Road Tilbury Essex
Received 11 Jun 2025Park Villa 23 Park Lane Aveley Essex RM15 4UB
Received 13 Jun 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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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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