Police Station Civic Square Tilbury Essex RM18 8AD Data via plota.co.uk
Proposal
Change of use from police station (Sui Generis Use) to 9 no. self-contained apartments (2x 2 bedroom, and 7x 3 bedroom C3 use) with parking spaces, cycle storage and waste and recycling storage. Data via plota.co.uk
Application progress
Approved on 15 Oct 2025 · Committee Decision · Last checked 16 Oct 2026
Planning committee
Decided by Thurrock Planning Committee on 14 Oct 2025, in a recorded vote.
Approved by 6 votes to 0
As officers recommended.
- Officers advised approval because the conversion, parking, living space, flood risk and ecology impacts were acceptable.
- A ward councillor spoke against the proposal, while the applicant spoke in support.
- Members approved the recommendation by six votes to nil, with one abstention.
Source: Plota analysis of Thurrock's committee minutes of 14 Oct 2025.
Documents 26
Decision & officer reports 2
Statements & assessments 9
Plans & drawings 7
Application forms 1
Consultation & comments 5
Site constraints 6
Checked on 16 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 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 1
Last sold for £825,000 in October 2024. Other property, freehold.
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
- Full Planning Permission Application
- Postcode
- RM18 8AD
- Received
- 20 Aug 2025
- Validated
- 26 Aug 2025
- Ward
- OLD Tilbury Riverside And Thurrock Park
- Case officer
- Show
- Target decision
- 21 Oct 2025
- Decision
- Approved
- Decision date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Decision level
- Committee Decision
- Applicant
- Show
- Agent
- DRK Planning Ltd
- Freehold owner
- Show
How this decision compares
Decided in 50 days from validation, 12 days faster than Thurrock's median of 62 for full applications. Approved, as 82% of full applications here are.
Plota live figures for full applications decided by Thurrock in the last twelve months, from validation. Thurrock decision record →
Public comments
17 neighbours consulted · Last counted 16 Oct 2026
Consultation & key dates
- Comments by
- 7 Oct 2025
- Committee
- 14 Oct 2025
- Statutory expiry
- 21 Oct 2025
- Env. assessment
- No
Historical activity at this location
12 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.
Nearby activity
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.
Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Freehold owner: Information produced by HM Land Registry. © Crown copyright 2026. Source: HM Land Registry, UK and overseas companies that own property in England and Wales, September 2026 release.
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