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.
3,585 approved · 653 refused · 117 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Part Of Rainbow Acres Stifford Clays Road Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 3NP
Received 10 Dec 202596 Cromwell Road Grays Essex RM17 5HW
Received 11 Dec 202596 Cromwell Road Grays Essex RM17 5HW
Received 11 Dec 202524 Rectory Road Grays Essex RM17 6BE
Received 11 Dec 2025148 Bridge Road Grays Essex RM17 6DB
Received 11 Dec 2025St Cedds Court Crammavill Street Stifford Clays Grays Essex
Received 11 Dec 202588 Hogg Lane Grays Essex RM17 5QT
Received 12 Dec 202546 High Road Orsett Essex RM16 3HB
Received 12 Dec 20257 Edmund Road Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6HA
Received 15 Dec 202517 Ruskin Road Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4HB
Received 15 Dec 20253 Parker Road Grays Essex RM17 5YW
Received 15 Dec 2025109 Humber Avenue South Ockendon Essex RM15 5JT
Received 16 Dec 2025Land Part Of Car Park West Thurrock Retail Park Weston Avenue West Thurrock Essex
Received 16 Dec 2025194 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM16 2TP
Received 16 Dec 202563 Gordon Road Grays Essex RM16 2GN
Received 16 Dec 20257 Shelford Close Orsett Essex RM16 3HN
Received 16 Dec 2025Allcures PLC Second Floor Allcures House Arisdale Avenue South Ockendon Essex RM15 5TT
Received 16 Dec 202514 Broadway Grays Essex RM17 6EW
Received 16 Dec 2025401 Daiglen Drive South Ockendon Essex RM15 5AJ
Received 16 Dec 202516A Cartel Close Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM19 1RZ
Received 16 Dec 2025Land Adjacent Polybitumen Plant And Innovation Technology Centre Burnley Road West Thurrock Essex
Received 17 Dec 2025Lakeside Retail Park West Thurrock Way West Thurrock Essex
Received 18 Dec 2025Tesco Cygnet View West Thurrock Essex RM20 1TX
Received 18 Dec 2025187 Whitmore Avenue Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2HT
Received 19 Dec 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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