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Land To The South Of National Grids Electrical Substation For New Cable Tunnel Fort Road Tilbury Essex

25/00488/CONDCCondition ClearanceApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 9 June 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application for the approval of details reserved by condition 19 (Archaeological trial trenching/excavation/monitoring) of planning permission ref 23/01502/FUL (Proposed construction a new cable tunnel beneath the River Thames between Tilbury and Gravesend to provide additional transmission capacity. Above-ground infrastructure in the form of a new Cable Sealing End compound and a new head house building along with associated electricity infrastructure, access, parking, boundary treatment and two overhead gantry structures for future overhead lines. Temporary compound for the duration of the project to provide parking, staff welfare facilities, delivery vehicle parking, and equipment and machinery storage, including boundary treatment and lighting).

Received
25 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Tilbury Riverside And Thurrock Park
  1. Received25 Apr
  2. Validated2 May
  3. Consult.27 May
  4. Target27 Jun
  5. Decided9 Jun

Decided in 38 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Land To The South Of National Grids Electrical Substation For New Cable Tunnel Fort Road Tilbury Essex. Thurrock has handled 137 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Thurrock's typical decision time. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Tilbury Riverside And Thurrock Park.

94% of conditions applications at Thurrock Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Condition Clearance
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 May 2025
Consultation expiry
27 May 2025
Consultation end
27 May 2025
Target decision date
27 June 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Planning history at this site

5 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    12 May

    Application for the approval of details reserved by condition no. 16 (Barge Movements) of planning permission…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions26/00509/CONDC
  2. 2026
    2 Mar

    Application for the approval of details reserved by condition no. 20 (Ventilation Details) of planning…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions26/00232/CONDC
  3. 2025
    23 Dec

    Application for the variation of condition no. 16 (Barge movements) of planning permission ref. 25/00746/CV

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)25/01480/CV
  4. 2025
    21 May

    Application for the approval of details reserved by condition no 18 (Landscape and Environmental Management…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions25/00609/CONDC
  5. 2025
    21 May

    Application for the approval of details reserved by condition no 14 (Construction Traffic Management Plan)…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions25/00608/CONDC

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