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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.
3,567 approved · 650 refused · 117 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bin Store 145 Block 43 To 57 Vicarage Square Grays Essex
Received 4 Sept 2025Falconhurst Second Avenue Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 8DP
Received 4 Sept 2025Bentley Farm Old Church Hill Langdon Hills Essex SS16 6HZ
Received 4 Sept 202592 Claudian Way Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4QU
Received 5 Sept 20251 Springfield Mews Mill Road Aveley Essex RM15 4SR
Received 8 Sept 20252 Gordon Road Corringham Essex SS17 7RG
Received 8 Sept 20251 Medick Court Grays Essex RM17 6UD
Received 8 Sept 2025Land And Buildings 146 - 240 Teviot Avenue Aveley Essex
Received 8 Sept 20256 Charles Street Grays Essex RM17 6DX
Received 8 Sept 2025Milo South Avenue Langdon Hills Essex SS16 6JG
Received 9 Sept 20256 Branksome Park Branksome Avenue Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 8AU
Received 9 Sept 202526 Cruick Avenue South Ockendon Essex RM15 6EL
Received 9 Sept 2025Hope Barn Karen Close Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0HT
Received 8 Sept 2025Alerne London Road Aveley Essex RM15 4XU
Received 9 Sept 20257 Edmund Road Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6HA
Received 10 Sept 202521 Francis Close Horndon On The Hill Essex SS17 8NT
Received 10 Sept 2025Corringham Road Store 20 Corringham Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0AH
Received 10 Sept 20256 Courtenay Drive Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6NX
Received 10 Sept 202529 Parkside Grays Essex RM16 2GE
Received 11 Sept 2025Langdon Hills Golf And Country Club Lower Dunton Road Bulphan Essex RM14 3TY
Received 11 Sept 2025London Gateway Port Ltd The Administration Building London Gateway 1 London Gateway Drive Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 9DY
Received 8 Sept 2025254 Lodge Lane Grays Essex RM16 2TH
Received 12 Sept 20251 Hawthorne Road Corringham Essex SS17 7TE
Received 15 Sept 2025Mama G's Afro Caribbean Store 21 Broadway Grays Essex RM17 6EW
Received 15 Sept 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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