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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
14,955 approved · 1,126 refused · 122 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Feb 2005 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
178A West Street, Havant, PO9 1LR
Received 29 Mar 201227 Bacon Lane, Hayling Island
Received 30 Mar 2012Padnell Infant School, Padnell Avenue, Waterlooville, PO8 8DS
Received 10 Apr 2012Langness, Woodgaston Lane, Hayling Island, PO11 0RL
Received 5 Apr 201255 Havant Road, Emsworth, PO10 7NY
Received 10 Apr 201227B Durley Avenue, Waterlooville, PO8 8XA
Received 10 Apr 201240 Horndean Road, Emsworth, PO10 7PT
Received 11 Apr 2012138 London Road, Waterlooville, PO7 5ST
Received 11 Apr 2012Former Petrol Filling Station, 5 Park Road South, Havant
Received 13 Apr 2012Land adj. 17 Somborne Drive, Havant, PO9 5AN
Received 16 Apr 20126 Rectory Road, Havant, PO9 1RJ
Received 17 Apr 2012Land to rear of 86-92 London Road, Purbrook, Waterlooville, PO7 5JU
Received 18 Apr 2012Ivory House, Copse Lane, Hayling Island, PO11 0QB
Received 18 Apr 201214 Vine Coppice, Waterlooville, PO7 5DU
Received 19 Apr 201210 Southleigh Road, Havant, PO9 2RS
Received 23 Apr 20125 Lysander Way, Waterlooville, PO7 8LE
Received 27 Apr 201215 Park Crescent, Emsworth, PO10 7NT
Received 30 Apr 2012Stoke Fruit Farm, 77 Havant Road, Hayling Island, PO11 0PT
Received 30 Apr 201223 Pennant Hills, Havant, PO9 3JZ
Received 30 Apr 201222 Oakmont Drive, Waterlooville, PO8 8TH
Received 1 May 201242 High Street, Emsworth, PO10 7AW
Received 3 May 201210 Philip Road, Waterlooville, PO7 7BU
Received 8 May 2012Land west of Bupa Hospital, Bartons Road, Havant
Received 3 May 201232 Lower Road, Havant, PO9 3LJ
Received 8 May 2012Records 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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