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.
3,560 approved · 649 refused · 117 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent A1089 Dock Approach Road And Marshfoot Road Grays Essex
Received 18 Aug 202520 Park Road Corringham Essex SS17 7PX
Received 18 Aug 2025Oak Cottage Oxford Road Horndon On The Hill Essex SS17 8PX
Received 18 Aug 2025Land To West Of Turnpike Lane And South Of Linford Road Chadwell St Mary Essex
Received 18 Aug 2025GC Distribution Beacon Hill Industrial Estate Botany Way Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM19 1SR
Received 15 Aug 2025Naiad Lower Dunton Road Bulphan Essex RM14 3TD
Received 18 Aug 2025The Old Rectory Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0RN
Received 18 Aug 20255 Kershaw Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6RN
Received 19 Aug 2025166 Hathaway Road Grays Essex RM17 5LJ
Received 19 Aug 2025Asda Thurrock Park Way Tilbury Essex RM18 7HJ
Received 20 Aug 20255 Adstock Way Grays Essex RM17 5EG
Received 20 Aug 202512 The Firs Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 2HL
Received 19 Aug 2025Police Station Civic Square Tilbury Essex RM18 8AD
Received 20 Aug 202549 Thomas Bata Avenue East Tilbury Essex RM18 8SH
Received 21 Aug 20256 Badgers Mount Orsett Essex RM16 3JB
Received 21 Aug 2025140 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM16 2UD
Received 21 Aug 2025Land Near Junction Of Biggin Lane Sandy Lane Chadwell St Mary Essex
Received 21 Aug 20256 Prior Chase Grays Essex RM17 5HL
Received 21 Aug 202518 Ridgwell Avenue Orsett Essex RM16 3HP
Received 21 Aug 20258 Malthouse Drive Grays Essex RM17 5FA
Received 22 Aug 2025The KARA Meze Lounge Fleming Road Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6HH
Received 22 Aug 2025Container Storage Yard London Gateway Drive Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 20 Aug 2025Land To West Of Turnpike Lane And South Of Linford Road Chadwell St Mary Essex
Received 22 Aug 2025Trasa Court Gipsy Lane Grays Essex
Received 22 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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