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25/01276/FUL - Full Planning Permission Application Approved

Proposal

Erection of 116 residential dwellings, and provision of associated infrastructure including access roads, car parking, public open space and landscaping Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 11 Oct 2026, 14:18

Application progress

✓

Received

24 Oct 2025

✓

Approved

21 Sept 2026

Approved on 21 Sept 2026 · Committee Decision · Last checked 11 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Thurrock Planning Committee on 14 Apr 2026, in a recorded vote.

Approved by 7 votes to 2

As officers recommended.

For7

Against2

Officers advised approval because the site was Grey Belt, met the Golden Rules and would provide much-needed affordable housing.
Residents and biodiversity groups raised concerns about traffic, infrastructure, character, pollution and the site’s ecological value.
The committee approved the recommendation by seven votes to two, subject to a legal agreement and planning conditions.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, committee debate, vote and decision. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Thurrock's committee minutes of 14 Apr 2026.

Documents 238

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF LEGAL ? SIGNED S106 AGREEMENT. Decision Notice · 21 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF DECISION NOTICE Decision Notice · 21 Sept 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 33

Plans & drawings 146

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Application Form · 24 Oct 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 37

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.

National infrastructure project about 163 m away: Lower Thames Crossing

The site is about 163 m from the project boundary. Highway, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: Thurrock Flexible Generation Plant (decided, about 1501 m); Tilbury2 (decided, about 1512 m); Norwich to Tilbury (examination closed, recommendation due, about 1695 m).

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 ↗

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 11 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.

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Important details

Council: Thurrock
Application type: Full Planning Permission Application
Received: 24 Oct 2025
Validated: 24 Oct 2025
Ward: OLD Chadwell St Mary
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 23 Jan 2026
Decision: Approved
Decision date: 21 Sept 2026
Decision level: Committee Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Savills

How this decision compares

Decided in 332 days from validation, 275 days slower than Thurrock's median of 57 for new homes. Approved, as 70% of new homes here are.

This one332d

Council57d

UK59d

45%decided within 8 weeks

70%approved

12%go to committee

Plota live figures for new homes decided by Thurrock in the last twelve months, from validation. Thurrock decision record →

Public comments

3comments received

3 objecting

100% object · above the UK average of 74%

56 neighbours consulted · Last counted 11 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 31 Mar 2026
Site or press notice: 13 Nov 2025
Committee: 14 Apr 2026
Statutory expiry: 23 Jan 2026
Env. assessment: No

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