Pre-Application Advice

We provide pre-application advice for applications. This advice is provided free of charge. You should include the following information with your request:

A covering letter with your name and address, describing the site location and the proposed works.

  • Photographs showing the area affected by the proposed works and others showing the surrounding area.
  • Site location map with the boundary of the application site outlined in red and the boundary of any other areas controlled by the applicant outlined in blue.
  • Plans or other drawings. We appreciate that this might be difficult at such an early stage; however without any form of drawings the advice we can provide will be limited.

Please remember that the more information you can provide about your proposal, the more accurate and in depth our feedback will be. Please submit your pre-application advice request by post:

Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation
Planning Department - Pre-Application Advice Request
2nd Floor, Civic Offices (CO1)
New Road
Grays
Essex
RM17 6SLE

or email: Planners@thurrocktgdc.org.uk. (Please ensure the subject line includes the words ‘Pre-Application Advice Request’)

For general advice on planning regulations and submitting applications you can contact the planning department by email (Planners@thurrocktgdc.org.uk) or visit our offices -Monday to Friday, between 9.00am to 4.30pm.

If your proposals also include highways elements and/or are likely to have an impact on the Strategic Road Network then you should contact the Highways Agency in order to assess the need and extent of any work that might have to be undertaken.

Further information and contact details can be found in the following guidance note: