Bells Corner Service Station Bells Corner Parade Southend Road Fobbing Essex SS17 9HD Data via plota.co.uk

26/00717/FUL - Full Planning Permission Application Awaiting decision

Proposal

Change of use from Petrol Station (Sui Generis) to Used Car Sales (Sui Generis), removal of diesel island and decommissioning of underground fuel tanks Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 06:33

Application progress

✓

Received

25 Jun 2026

✓

Validated

5 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 30 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 30 Nov 2026 and 9 Dec 2026, from Thurrock's recent changes of use.

Documents 13

Site constraints 4

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 3b

Not 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) agrees.

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.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

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

Also on the record

SSSI about 411 m away: Langdon Ridge SSSI.

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 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.

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Important details

Council: Thurrock
Application type: Full Planning Permission Application
Postcode: SS17 9HD
Received: 25 Jun 2026
Validated: 5 Oct 2026
Ward: Corringham And Fobbing
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 30 Nov 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: LWDRAUGHTS

Decision outlook

Day 4 of the 56-day target. Thurrock usually decides changes of use by day 56.

prediction

Day 452 days to the 56-day target

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 6 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 30 Nov 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2022 Refused

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2020 Refused

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20/00555/FUL 28 Aug 2020

2019 Approved

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Formation of a new vehicle access to highway Formation of a new vehicle access to highway

19/00429/HHA 13 Jun 2019

2016 Approved

Cedars High Road Fobbing Essex SS17 9HF

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Thurrock

Planning Authority Score

6/10

Average

#104 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

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