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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Havant Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Havant website
14,951 approved · 1,126 refused · 121 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Feb 2005 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
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158A Stakes Hill Road, Waterlooville, PO7 7BS
Received 10 Jul 202482 Lovedean Lane, Waterlooville, PO8 9SS
Received 12 Jul 202417 Garden Close, Hayling Island, PO11 9AD
Received 16 Jul 202419 London Road, Widley, Waterlooville, PO7 5AS
Received 10 Jul 20244 Maylands Road, Havant, PO9 3NP
Received 17 Jul 202412 Fairlight Chalets, Salterns Lane, Hayling Island, PO11 9LQ
Received 16 Jul 202411 Iping Avenue, Havant, PO9 4RH
Received 18 Jul 2024The Old Flour Mill, Queen Street, Emsworth
Received 15 Jul 202429 Dunsbury Way, Havant, PO9 5BA
Received 18 Jul 202434 New Brighton Road, Emsworth, PO10 7QR
Received 12 Jul 2024Lake House, Bidbury Lane, Havant, PO9 3JG
Received 19 Jul 20248 Wellington Retail Park, 2 Hambledon Road, Waterlooville, PO7 7FG
Received 20 Jul 202470 Westbourne Avenue, Emsworth, PO10 7QU
Received 22 Jul 202451 Bath Road, Emsworth, PO10 7ES
Received 22 Jul 2024McDonalds Restaurant, Larchwood Avenue, Havant, PO9 3BF
Received 12 Jul 2024Flat 7, Purbrook House, 33 London Road, Purbrook, Waterlooville, PO7 5JY
Received 19 Jul 20246 Racton Road, Emsworth, PO10 7SY
Received 24 Jul 2024Spindrift, Ferry Road, Hayling Island, PO11 0DG
Received 24 Jul 2024Flat 8, Purbrook House, 33 London Road, Purbrook, Waterlooville, PO7 5JY
Received 19 Jul 202416 Sandy Brow, Waterlooville, PO7 5JP
Received 26 Jul 202453 South Street, Havant, PO9 1BY
Received 26 Jul 2024Land on the east side of Helmsley House, Bartons Road, Havant
Received 24 Jul 2024Town Park at the Berewood Phase 2 Development Site, London Road, Purbrook, Waterlooville
Received 19 Jul 2024Cedar House, 19 Bacon Lane, Hayling Island, PO11 0DN
Received 24 Jul 2024Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Havant Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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