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.
3,597 approved · 655 refused · 117 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Adstock Way Grays Essex RM17 5EG
Received 2 Feb 202643 Premier Avenue Grays Essex RM16 2SB
Received 2 Feb 202616 Cambridge Gardens Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4HS
Received 2 Feb 202616 Heath Road Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4UP
Received 2 Feb 2026Fieldhouse Farm Baker Street Orsett Essex RM16 3LJ
Received 2 Feb 2026Sandown Nurseries Sandown Road Orsett Essex
Received 2 Feb 2026108 Long Lane Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2PP
Received 2 Feb 202637 Triumph Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6RQ
Received 3 Feb 2026205 Whitmore Avenue Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2HT
Received 3 Feb 2026Balgownie Farm Lower Dunton Road Bulphan Essex RM14 3TD
Received 4 Feb 202616 Bonham Grange Church Road Bulphan Essex RM14 3BJ
Received 4 Feb 202691A Clarence Road Grays Essex RM17 6RA
Received 4 Feb 20265 Hollowfield Avenue Grays Essex RM17 5SR
Received 4 Feb 2026215 Danbury Crescent South Ockendon Essex RM15 5XB
Received 4 Feb 2026The Rabbits 783 London Road West Thurrock Essex RM20 3JT
Received 5 Feb 2026Hall House Blue Anchor Lane West Tilbury Essex RM18 8TT
Received 5 Feb 20265 Hepburn Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6LZ
Received 5 Feb 202643 Laburnum Drive Corringham Essex SS17 7QF
Received 5 Feb 2026Oxley House High Road Horndon On The Hill Essex SS17 8LF
Received 6 Feb 2026Thurrock Flexible Generation Plant Station Road East Tilbury Essex RM18 8QR
Received 6 Feb 2026101 Feenan Highway Tilbury Essex RM18 8EX
Received 6 Feb 2026Coryton Advanced Fuels Ltd The Manorway Coryton Essex SS17 9LN
Received 6 Feb 202648 Curling Lane Grays Essex RM17 5JB
Received 9 Feb 202647 Milton Road Grays Essex RM17 5EY
Received 9 Feb 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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