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.
3,592 approved · 653 refused · 117 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Heath Farm Farm Lane Grays Essex
Received 12 Jan 202616 Brevet Close Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM19 1RW
Received 13 Jan 2026Land Adjacent Tindall Hall Herd Lane Corringham Essex
Received 13 Jan 2026312 Long Lane Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2QH
Received 13 Jan 202616 School Lane Orsett Essex RM16 3JS
Received 13 Jan 202610 Hatfield Road Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6LR
Received 13 Jan 202658 Grangewood Avenue Grays Essex RM16 2GJ
Received 13 Jan 202627 Grange Road Aveley Essex RM15 4ER
Received 13 Jan 202636 Thomas Bata Avenue East Tilbury Essex RM18 8SH
Received 13 Jan 2026133 Dock Road Tilbury Essex RM18 7BT
Received 13 Jan 2026Pineapple Care Services Pineapple Lodge 117 - 119 Mollands Lane South Ockendon Essex RM15 6DJ
Received 14 Jan 20268 Prince Philip Avenue Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2BS
Received 14 Jan 2026Industrial Chemicals Stoneness Road West Thurrock Essex RM20 3AG
Received 14 Jan 2026Costco Wholesale West Thurrock Way West Thurrock Essex RM20 3WY
Received 14 Jan 2026Church Cottage 11 High Road Orsett Essex RM16 3ER
Received 14 Jan 202635 High Road Orsett Essex RM16 3ER
Received 15 Jan 2026137 High Road Orsett Essex RM16 3LD
Received 15 Jan 2026Meadow Farm East Tilbury Road Linford Essex SS17 0QS
Received 15 Jan 2026Holdsworth Foods Sandy Lane Farm Sandy Lane Aveley Essex RM15 4XP
Received 15 Jan 202610 Founes Drive Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6DU
Received 15 Jan 202670 High View Avenue Grays Essex RM17 6RX
Received 16 Jan 20264 Marram Court Grays Essex RM17 6UA
Received 16 Jan 2026Land Adjcent The Flagship Centre London Road Tilbury Essex
Received 19 Jan 2026Lidl St Chads Road Tilbury Essex
Received 19 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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