Thurrock planning applications
SiteLens tracks and classifies every planning application submitted to Thurrock Council, updated daily. Thurrock Council received 271 planning applications in the last 90 days, 11 of them major schemes. 87% of the applications it decided were approved, with a median decision time of 57 days.
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Recent applications in Thurrock
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Land To Rear And Including 3 Little Malgraves Cottages Lower Dunton Road Bulphan Essex
40-dwelling outline residential scheme with affordable housing, Bulphan. Up to 40 homes on 2.2 hectares, with access fixed and all other matters reserved. Groundworks, SuDS drainage and access road civils open the package, with brickwork, roofing and M&E following at reserved matters.
GroundworksDrainageStructural frame
Car Park 12 Lakeside Shopping Centre West Thurrock Way West Thurrock Essex
Padel and events leisure scheme, West Thurrock, full planning stage. Demolishes site structures to build a padel court, amenity building, events space and substation on 1.64 hectares. Groundworks, drainage, hard landscaping and substation M&E are the live packages for local subcontractors.
DemolitionGroundworksStructural frame
Unit D23 J31 Park Motherwell Way West Thurrock Essex RM20 3XD
931 sqm flexible industrial unit, West Thurrock, full application. New unit at J31 Park with parking, refuse storage, landscaping and gates, at full planning stage. Steel frame, cladding, roofing and yard drainage are open to specialists, with gates and fencing for hard-landscaping firms.
GroundworksStructural frameRoofing
Oozedam High Road Fobbing Essex SS17 9HT
Five-home Oozedam scheme: one retained house, four new detached dwellings, full application. Demolishes the pool enclosure and outbuildings, alters the retained house and erects four detached homes on a 0.57-hectare plot. Demolition, groundworks and brickwork packages open first, then roofing, M&E…
DemolitionGroundworksBrickwork
Sacred Heart Cottage Oxford Road Horndon On The Hill Essex SS17 8PX
Replacement dwelling with associated development, Horndon-on-the-Hill. Demolishes an existing cottage and erects a new single dwelling on a 0.2 hectare site at full application stage. Groundworks, structural frame, roofing and M&E packages drive the new build, with demolition and site clearance…
DemolitionGroundworksStructural frame
Land Adjoining Fobbing Acre And Mill Lane Fobbing Essex
Four-pitch gypsy and traveller extension, Thurrock, full application. Adds four pitches at Fobbing Acre, each with a mobile home, touring caravan and parking, at full application stage. Groundworks, hardstanding and pitch drainage plus utility connections are the open packages for local groundworks…
GroundworksDrainageHard landscaping
GC Distribution Beacon Hill Industrial Estate Botany Way Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM19 1SR
193 sqm warehouse extension, Purfleet, at full application stage. Adds new storage floorspace between two existing GC Distribution warehouses at Beacon Hill Industrial Estate. Steel frame, cladding and roofing packages suit local specialist subcontractors, with groundworks for new foundations.
GroundworksSteelCladding
Plot 1 Land Adjacent Avondale Inglefield Road Fobbing Essex
Single chalet bungalow plot, Fobbing, Permission in Principle stage. Permission in principle for one new chalet bungalow on land beside Avondale, Inglefield Road. Groundworks, brickwork and roofing packages follow once technical consent is secured, suiting local small builders.
GroundworksBrickworkRoofing
6 May Court Grays Essex RM17 6UB
Single end-of-terrace dwelling in Grays, at full application stage. Erects one three-bedroom terraced house on a 0.05 hectare plot at May Court, a new build with no existing structure. Groundworks, brickwork, roofing and M&E first fix are the packages open to local subcontractors at this scale.
GroundworksBrickworkRoofing
20 Balmoral Avenue Corringham Essex SS17 7PD
Single-bungalow reserved matters approval, Corringham. Confirms layout, scale, appearance and landscaping for one new dwelling following outline permission 26/00591/OUT. Groundworks, brickwork, roofing and drainage packages open first, with the approved landscaping opening hard landscaping work for…
GroundworksBrickworkRoofing
Eddys Autos Production House Princess Margaret Road East Tilbury Essex RM18 8RJ
Car wash site converting to B8 storage with new single-storey building, East Tilbury. Demolishes existing structures and erects 262 sqm ancillary storage linked to Production House at full application stage. Demolition, groundworks, portal frame and cladding packages drive the procurement cycle.
DemolitionGroundworksStructural frame
40 Wood Avenue Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM19 1TL
Single new-build terraced house with roofspace accommodation, Purfleet. Two storeys plus attic bedrooms on a 0.02-hectare site at full application stage. Groundworks, structural frame, roofing and M&E packages suit volume housebuilding suppliers, with storage and waste infrastructure on site.
GroundworksStructural frameBrickwork
Land At Hill Farm Old Church Hill Langdon Hills Essex
Prior notification for a general-purpose agricultural storage building at Hill Farm, Thurrock. Permitted-development route for a new farm building, with the notified scheme not yet built. Groundworks, steel portal frame and cladding packages are the likely trade openings for local subcontractors.
GroundworksSteelCladding
Production House Princess Margaret Road East Tilbury Essex RM18 8RJ
Retrospective retention of four roof-mounted condensers, East Tilbury. Retains four condenser units already installed at Production House, at full application stage. Refrigeration M&E and roof-fixing specialists could pick up remedial or compliance work on the units.
M&E
Avora Lounge Kings Walk Grays Essex RM17 6HR
Glazed pergola extension at Avora Lounge, Grays, full application. Adds a 33 sqm single-storey lean-to pergola with full-height glazing and a retractable roof in the rear garden. Glazing and aluminium framing packages lead, with groundworks for the base and retractable roof mechanism for specialist…
GlazingGroundworksRoofing
Planning appeals in Thurrock Council
An allowed appeal is one the council lost. Some kinds of appeal succeed far more often than others, so Thurrock Council is compared with the national rate for its own mix.
Thurrock Council, raw rate
27%
of judged appeals were allowed
Expected for this mix of appeals
31.1%
national rates applied to this caseload
4.1 percentage points below expected. Thurrock Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record predicts.
524 appeals counted, 504 judged either way (136 allowed, 368 dismissed), 20 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.
By kind of appeal
| Appeal type | This council | National | Cases | Judged | Allowed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 23.4% | 28.8% | 240 | 239 | 56 |
| Householder (HAS) | 33.3% | 35.6% | 214 | 210 | 70 |
| Enforcement Notice | 4% | 13.5% | 39 | 25 | 1 |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 46.7% | 36.9% | 16 | 15 | 7 |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 12.5% | 25% | 8 | 8 | 1 |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 20% | 33.3% | 5 | 5 | 1 |
2 more appeal types with fewer than 5 judged
| Appeal type | This council | National | Cases | Judged | Allowed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appeal against Enforcement Listed Building Notice/Enforcement Conservation Area Notice | Too few judged | 8.1% | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Section 106 Agreement | Too few judged | 39.8% | 1 | 1 | 0 |
How we calculate this
Judged means allowed or dismissed. Withdrawn, invalid, split and unrecorded appeals are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. Expected applies the national rate for each appeal type to this council's own caseload. National rates by type are in The State of UK Planning.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database on GOV.UK, not the council's own planning register. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Money behind development in Thurrock Council
Thurrock Council's developer contribution register is not yet in SiteLens.
Affordable housing grant in Thurrock Council
What central government confirmed: schemes in the area with Homes England grant agreed.
- Affordable rent5 homes
- Shared ownership153 homes
Source: Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, GOV.UK transparency data, as at 31 March 2025. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Grant requested is the figure when grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by local authority name.
Thurrock Council approval rates by application type
Share of decided applications approved in the last 12 months.
- householder86% (288 decided)
- residential83% (54 decided)
- commercial98% (46 decided)
- other100% (39 decided)
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