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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.
3,530 approved · 646 refused · 115 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land West Of And Adjacent To Hogg Lane Grays Essex
Received 13 Jun 2025Land To The South Of National Grids Electrical Substation For New Cable Tunnel Fort Road Tilbury Essex
Received 13 Jun 2025Sandown Nurseries Sandown Road Orsett Essex
Received 13 Jun 2025The Downs Elms Lane Bulphan Essex RM14 3TS
Received 16 Jun 202584 Brennan Road Tilbury Essex RM18 8BA
Received 16 Jun 202542 Church Road Tilbury Essex RM18 7AJ
Received 16 Jun 2025Lidl St Chads Road Tilbury Essex
Received 16 Jun 2025Petrol Filling Station Morrisons London Road Grays Essex RM17 5XZ
Received 16 Jun 202560 Archates Avenue Grays Essex RM16 6QS
Received 16 Jun 2025Keir Hardie House Milford Road Grays Essex
Received 17 Jun 2025Telecommunications Mast Star Industrial Estate Linford Road Chadwell St Mary Essex
Received 17 Jun 2025Pumping Station Lower Dunton Road Bulphan Essex
Received 17 Jun 2025Tilbury Riverside Station Ferry Road Tilbury Essex
Received 17 Jun 2025North Site And South Site Properties The Flowers Estate Celandine Close South Ockendon Essex
Received 17 Jun 2025North Site And South Site Properties The Flowers Estate Celandine Close South Ockendon Essex
Received 17 Jun 2025Tensing Muckingford Road Linford Essex SS17 0RF
Received 18 Jun 2025Willow Cottage Southend Road Fobbing Essex SS17 9EY
Received 18 Jun 20258 Jarrah Cottages London Road Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM19 1SA
Received 18 Jun 2025207 Danbury Crescent South Ockendon Essex RM15 5XB
Received 18 Jun 2025St Kilda 12 High View Avenue Grays Essex RM17 6RU
Received 18 Jun 2025London Gateway Port Ltd The Administration Building London Gateway 1 London Gateway Drive Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 9DY
Received 18 Jun 2025Land To North East Of Manor View Southend Road Corringham Essex
Received 18 Jun 202575 Corran Way South Ockendon Essex RM15 6AR
Received 18 Jun 202575 Corran Way South Ockendon Essex RM15 6AR
Received 18 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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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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