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.
3,556 approved · 648 refused · 117 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Nov 2016 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Langdon Hills Golf And Country Club Lower Dunton Road Bulphan Essex RM14 3TY
Received 12 Aug 2025Hall Farm Cottage Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0RN
Received 12 Aug 20254 Bowerman Road Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4ET
Received 12 Aug 2025Land And Buildings 146 - 240 Teviot Avenue Aveley Essex
Received 12 Aug 2025153 London Road Grays Essex RM17 5YD
Received 13 Aug 202520 Stour Road Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4BS
Received 13 Aug 2025Flexitricity Lime Kilns Energy Centre Lower Dunton Road Bulphan Essex
Received 13 Aug 202551 St Francis Way Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4RB
Received 13 Aug 20251 St Georges Avenue Grays Essex RM17 5XB
Received 13 Aug 20251 St Georges Avenue Grays Essex RM17 5XB
Received 13 Aug 2025White Lodge Fourth Avenue Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 8HN
Received 13 Aug 2025Cloudshill High Road Fobbing Essex SS17 9HY
Received 13 Aug 202525 St Francis Way Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4PB
Received 14 Aug 2025Norwich To Tilbury National Grid Realignment Fort Road Tilbury Essex
Received 14 Aug 2025Telecommunications Equipment Lodge Lane Grays Essex
Received 12 Aug 2025The Vicarage Clockhouse Lane Grays Essex RM16 6YW
Received 14 Aug 2025Thameside Theatre And Thameside Two Thameside Complex Orsett Road Grays Essex RM17 5DX
Received 11 Aug 2025The Chaucer 14 Harper Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6DA
Received 14 Aug 202547 Billet Lane Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0AP
Received 14 Aug 202514 Russel Road Grays Essex RM17 5JX
Received 14 Aug 202514 Martin Road Aveley Essex RM15 4TR
Received 14 Aug 202529 Laburnum Grove South Ockendon Essex RM15 6TA
Received 15 Aug 2025Thurrock Football Club Ship Lane Purfleet-on-Thames Essex RM19 1YN
Received 15 Aug 202521 Meadway Grays Essex RM17 5TA
Received 15 Aug 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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