Essex

Thurrock planning data

4,726 planning applications from Thurrock. Ask questions about them in plain English from ChatGPT or Claude — no coding, about two minutes to set up — or pull them straight into your own software. 14 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

4,726

Applications

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Enforcement notices

673

Appeals

1985–2026

Date range

What Thurrock decides

Thurrock has approved 84.99% of the 3,997 applications it has decided since January 2023. Across the 225 councils with a comparable caseload the range is 71.37% to 99.14%, so this is below the middle of the pack (89.18%).

84.99%

Approved, of 3,997 decided

Median days to a decision

84.1

Average days

What it mostly decides

The mix of application types Thurrock handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	1,416	30.0%
Householder	1,356	28.7%
Full	911	19.3%
Certificate	628	13.3%
Amendment	255	5.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Thurrock actually fills in

A "field" is one piece of information on an application — the decision date, the applicant's name, the address. Councils fill these in inconsistently, so this table measures how often Thurrock actually provides each one, across all 4,726 records. Anything listed as reliable you can count on; anything lower, check the council's own record before relying on it.

Once this data is connected to ChatGPT or Claude you can just ask "what information does Thurrock actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Address `address`	4,726	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,726	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	4,726	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,726	100.0%
Ward `ward`	4,720	99.9%
Application type `application_type`	4,712	99.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	4,660	98.6%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	4,618	97.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,489	95.0%
Decision `decision`	4,475	94.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,475	94.7%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,386	92.8%
Status `status`	4,384	92.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,384	92.8%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,162	88.1%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,097	86.7%
Postcode `postcode`	3,853	81.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,828	81.0%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,515	74.4%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,575	33.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2	0.0%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Thurrock's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

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Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Thurrock last year?" or "what's the planning history of this address?" — no coding, about two minutes to set up. Setup guide →

Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=93&limit=5"

Council id for Thurrock is 93. Full API reference for developers →

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