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.
3,593 approved · 655 refused · 117 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Foxfield Drive Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 8HH
Received 19 Jan 2026Thurrock Football Club Ship Lane Purfleet-on-Thames Essex RM19 1YN
Received 20 Jan 2026Thurrock Football Club Ship Lane Purfleet-on-Thames Essex RM19 1YN
Received 20 Jan 2026Grays Complentary Clinic 2 Cromwell Road Grays Essex RM17 5HF
Received 21 Jan 20265 Goldsmiths Avenue Corringham Essex SS17 7HU
Received 21 Jan 2026Thurrock Yacht Club Thames Road Grays Essex RM17 6JF
Received 21 Jan 202628 Elmway Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2HJ
Received 21 Jan 202674 Lenmore Avenue Grays Essex RM17 5NZ
Received 21 Jan 202674 Kent Road Grays Essex RM17 6DF
Received 21 Jan 202630 Cumberland Road Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6DS
Received 21 Jan 2026Claridon House London Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 22 Jan 20261 Victoria Road Horndon On The Hill Essex SS17 8NA
Received 22 Jan 202623 Carlton Road Grays Essex RM16 2YB
Received 22 Jan 2026Development Land Part Of Landfill And Quarry Adjacent Collingwood Farm Stanford Road Orsett Essex
Received 22 Jan 2026Holly Cottage Argent Street Grays Essex RM17 6PH
Received 23 Jan 2026Former Church Hall Foxton Road South Stifford Grays Essex RM20 4AB
Received 23 Jan 2026Durley Rectory Road Orsett Essex RM16 3EH
Received 23 Jan 202628 Fyfield Drive South Ockendon Essex RM15 5QE
Received 26 Jan 20267 Arnold Place Tilbury Essex RM18 8HG
Received 26 Jan 2026St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 26 Jan 2026Mill House Stifford Clays Road Orsett Essex RM16 3LX
Received 26 Jan 202627 Hamble Lane South Ockendon Essex RM15 5HQ
Received 26 Jan 20261 Harrap Chase Grays Essex RM17 5EW
Received 26 Jan 2026Condovers Scout Activity Centre Condovers Meadow Church Road West Tilbury Essex RM18 8QX
Received 26 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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