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.
3,586 approved · 653 refused · 117 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
33 Hardie Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0PB
Received 19 Dec 2025Orsett Park Farm Prince Charles Avenue Orsett Essex
Received 19 Dec 2025Holdsworth Foods Sandy Lane Farm Sandy Lane Aveley Essex RM15 4XP
Received 19 Dec 202551 Harvey Grays Essex RM16 2TX
Received 22 Dec 2025Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's Witnesses Avontar Road South Ockendon Essex RM15 5AJ
Received 22 Dec 2025Ponds Farm Purfleet Road Aveley Essex RM15 4DU
Received 22 Dec 2025Queen Mary Court Queen Mary Avenue East Tilbury Essex
Received 22 Dec 202557 Prospect Avenue Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0NJ
Received 22 Dec 202538 Cawdor Avenue South Ockendon Essex RM15 5RF
Received 23 Dec 2025Land To The South Of National Grids Electrical Substation For New Cable Tunnel Fort Road Tilbury Essex
Received 23 Dec 2025Essex Beauty Room 1B Kingston Parade Hathaway Road Grays Essex RM17 5LG
Received 22 Dec 2025215 Danbury Crescent South Ockendon Essex RM15 5XB
Received 23 Dec 202578 Fairway Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2AJ
Received 24 Dec 2025Costco Wholesale West Thurrock Way West Thurrock Essex RM20 3WY
Received 24 Dec 2025Former 76 High Street Grays Essex RM17 6HU
Received 24 Dec 202525 Davis Road Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6PT
Received 24 Dec 20252 Stanford Gardens Aveley Essex RM15 4BU
Received 30 Dec 2025Anvil House Church Road Corringham Essex SS17 9AP
Received 30 Dec 202550 Cowper Avenue Tilbury Essex RM18 8AS
Received 31 Dec 20257 Church Road Tilbury Essex RM18 7AJ
Received 31 Dec 20255 Theobalds Avenue Grays Essex RM17 6SA
Received 31 Dec 202525 Boscombe Avenue Grays Essex RM17 6AF
Received 31 Dec 202527 Gloucester Avenue East Tilbury Essex RM18 8RB
Received 1 Jan 2026Tilbury Pioneer Academy Dickens Avenue Tilbury Essex RM18 8HJ
Received 2 Jan 2026Records 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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