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.
3,579 approved · 651 refused · 117 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Nov 2016 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
36 Burns Place Tilbury Essex RM18 8JQ
Received 13 Nov 20254 Lowlands Road Aveley Essex RM15 4ED
Received 13 Nov 2025HSS Hire Service Group Plot 4 Watson Close West Thurrock Essex RM20 3EF
Received 14 Nov 2025South Ockendon Hall And Land Adjacent North Road Hall Lane South Ockendon Essex
Received 14 Nov 2025Footbridge And Car Park Orchard Road South Ockendon Essex
Received 5 Nov 20251 Victoria Road Horndon On The Hill Essex SS17 8NA
Received 17 Nov 202514 Lenmore Avenue Grays Essex RM17 5NZ
Received 17 Nov 20256 Gentry Close Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0HX
Received 17 Nov 202583 Southend Road Grays Essex RM17 5NL
Received 17 Nov 2025Telecommunications Mast Whitehall Farm Whitehall Lane Fobbing Essex
Received 13 Nov 202526 Trent East Tilbury Essex RM18 8SU
Received 17 Nov 2025Carpetright Nestware House Purfleet Bypass Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM19 1TT
Received 17 Nov 2025Lansdowne Primary Academy Lansdowne Road Tilbury Essex RM18 7QB
Received 18 Nov 2025East Lodge College Avenue Grays Essex RM17 5UN
Received 18 Nov 2025The Stables Rookery Hill Corringham Essex SS17 9LB
Received 18 Nov 2025Orchard House Peartree Lane Bulphan Essex RM14 3SP
Received 7 Nov 2025Land North Of West Road South Of Kemps Farm And East Of Dennis Road South Ockendon Essex
Received 19 Nov 2025Costco Wholesale West Thurrock Way West Thurrock Essex RM20 3WY
Received 19 Nov 2025Ivy Wall House Billet Lane Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0AR
Received 20 Nov 202529 Button Road Grays Essex RM17 5HE
Received 21 Nov 202553 Meadow Road Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2EX
Received 21 Nov 2025Church House 5 High Road Orsett Essex RM16 3ER
Received 21 Nov 2025Unit 2 The Boardwalk Lakeside Shopping Centre West Thurrock Way West Thurrock Essex RM20 2ZN
Received 21 Nov 2025Thameside Theatre And Thameside Two Thameside Complex Orsett Road Grays Essex RM17 5DX
Received 19 Nov 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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