Rainbow Acres Stifford Clays Road Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 3NP Data via plota.co.uk

26/00574/CLEUD - Certificate Lawful Exisiting Use Devel't Approved

Proposal

The use of land and building (Building B as marked in the evidence) for the storage and export of vehicles Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 17 Sept 2026, 08:06

Application progress

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Received

22 May 2026

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Approved

16 Sept 2026

Approved on 16 Sept 2026 · Chief Planning Officer Decision · Last checked 17 Sept 2026

Documents 8

Site constraints 5

Green belt: London

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

National infrastructure project about 30 m away: Lower Thames Crossing

The site is about 30 m from the project boundary. Highway, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £515,000 in September 2002. Detached house, freehold.

6 September 2002£515,000

23 December 1997£155,000New build

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council: Thurrock
Application type: Certificate Lawful Exisiting Use Devel't
Postcode: RM16 3NP
Received: 22 May 2026
Validated: 22 May 2026
Ward: Stifford
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 17 Jul 2026
Decision: Approved
Decision date: 16 Sept 2026
Decision level: Chief Planning Officer Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: ADP Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 117 days from validation, 61 days slower than Thurrock's median of 56 for changes of use. Approved, as 82% of changes of use here are.

This one117d

Council56d

UK56d

52%decided within 8 weeks

82%approved

8%go to committee

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Thurrock in the last twelve months, from validation. Thurrock decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 17 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 17 Jul 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

1 nearby application on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Refused

Land Part Of Rainbow Acres Stifford Clays Road Stifford Clays Grays Essex RM16 3NP

Demolition of existing stables and erection of a single c3 dwellinghouse and chnage of us…

25/01445/FUL 12 Mar 2026

Thurrock

Planning Authority Score

6/10

Average

#104 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Thurrock is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #25 out of 296. Thurrock is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 82% approved vs 90% nationally.

Among the fastest councils in England

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Thurrock decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

82%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #252 of 296

82%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #271 of 296

84%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #25 of 296

31%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #62 of 296

65%

Minor dwellings approved

74 decided (1-9 homes)

43%

Major dwellings approved

7 decided (10+ homes)

86%

Change of use approved

43 decided

671

Total decisions

124 refused in the year to March 2026