Horizon Architecture · Essex and London
Architectural design and planning support for homeowners, property developers and businesses in Thurrock.
We work with briefs across Grays, Tilbury, Stanford-le-Hope and surrounding communities. Horizon Architecture provides design, planning drawings and technical coordination for residential and commercial projects. We serve the area by arrangement; this page does not describe a separate local office.
Check the exact property address and planning authority before preparing your submission. Postcodes and postal town names do not always identify the local planning boundary.
Thurrock’s planning guidance links householders and smaller developers to a wildlife assessment check intended to help identify whether ecological advice may be needed. Use that as an early screening step alongside the planning history and site review; it does not replace a specialist assessment when one is required.
Official Thurrock Council guidance and records · Source reviewed 18 October 2026.
For a Thurrock extension, conversion or commercial development, we can help coordinate the design drawings with the relevant consultant inputs. Identifying those inputs early reduces the risk of preparing a package that later needs significant redesign.
Explore our house extension design, loft conversions, new build architecture, interior design and Building Regulations drawing packages. For an existing refusal, see our planning refusal review service.
Your appointment defines the services included. Statutory application charges, surveys and specialist consultant fees are identified separately. Council approval is an independent decision and cannot be guaranteed.
Yes. We start with the available plans, your brief and the site constraints, then agree whether a measured survey, planning submission and technical package are required.
The planning and technical stages serve different purposes. Your quotation should identify the construction details, engineering and other consultant inputs needed for the intended work.
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Send your site address, photographs, existing plans if available, a short brief and your intended timetable. We will review the information and explain the next step and scope of a quotation.
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