Writing a DAS for a Thurrock application
A Design & Access Statement explains and justifies your proposal against the development plan. For schemes across Thurrock — Grays, Tilbury, Stanford-le-Hope and Corringham and the surrounding area — that means engaging Thurrock's own adopted policies on design, character and amenity, plus the NPPF. Buildwise auto-detects site constraints (Metropolitan Green Belt (over 60% of the borough — PMD6 governs extensions, replacement dwellings and residential curtilages), conservation areas + listed buildings (Orsett, Grays, Tilbury Fort) and flood zones along the Thames estuary (Tilbury, Purfleet, West Thurrock)) from your postcode and writes each section tailored to your site and project type.
Cited to Thurrock's actual adopted plan
Buildwise references Thurrock's live policies directly — for example design, amenity and character policies such as PMD2 (Design and Layout), PMD6 (Development in the Green Belt), PMD1 (Minimising Pollution and Impacts on Amenity, Health, Safety and the Natural Environment) — quoted from the source documents and verified, never invented. As Thurrock updates its plan, Buildwise's corpus is updated with it.
- Thurrock Core Strategy and Policies for Management of Development (adopted 2011, as amended January 2015)
How it works
Address + postcode; constraints detected automatically.
Usually under 10 minutes.
Download as PDF, edit online, or send to your client under your practice logo.
Example (excerpt)
"The single-storey design and restrained ridge height directly address scale and massing, ensuring compliance with Policy PMD2 (Design and Layout). Generous separation to the host dwelling with no new facing windows satisfies the amenity requirements engaged by Policy PMD6…"
Frequently asked questions
Required for major development and for most work in conservation areas or the Metropolitan Green Belt (over 60% of the borough — PMD6 governs extensions, replacement dwellings and residential curtilages); often expected for householder schemes too. Buildwise produces one either way.
Thurrock's adopted Thurrock Core Strategy and Policies for Management of Development (adopted 2011, as amended January 2015) policies relevant to your scheme — such as PMD2 (Design and Layout), PMD6 (Development in the Green Belt), PMD1 (Minimising Pollution and Impacts on Amenity, Health, Safety and the Natural Environment) — plus the NPPF.
Minutes, versus most of a working day by hand.
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