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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
14,967 approved · 1,129 refused · 122 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Feb 2005 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tesco Stores Ltd, Solent Road, Havant, PO9 1TR
Received 4 Feb 2020Tesco Stores Ltd, Solent Road, Havant, PO9 1TR
Received 4 Feb 202027 Stockheath Lane, Havant, PO9 3BU
Received 4 Feb 2020Tree adj to 5 Cornbrook Grove, Waterlooville
Received 4 Feb 20205 Oakmeadow Close, Emsworth, PO10 7RL
Received 5 Feb 202035 Westways, Havant, PO9 3LN
Received 6 Feb 2020348 Purbrook Way, Havant, PO9 3SQ
Received 11 Feb 2020Land to the rear of 6 Covert Grove, Waterlooville, PO7 8EY
Received 12 Feb 2020Bidbury Lawn, Bidbury Lane, Havant, PO9 3JG
Received 13 Feb 20205 Orange Row, Emsworth, PO10 7EL
Received 13 Feb 202091B Purbrook Gardens, Waterlooville, PO7 5LE
Received 13 Feb 202014C The Crescent, Waterlooville, PO7 5EU
Received 14 Feb 2020128-130 Sea Front, Hayling Island
Received 13 Feb 202028 Everglades Avenue, Waterlooville, PO8 8NA
Received 14 Feb 20202 Cairo Villas, Manor Road, Hayling Island, PO11 0QL
Received 19 Feb 2020112 Lovedean Lane, Waterlooville, PO8 9SN
Received 19 Feb 2020Development site at Portsdown Hill, west of Glebe Park Avenue and north of Bedhampton Hill, Havant
Received 5 Nov 2014Thatched Cottages and Tudor Farm Nursery, Eastleigh Road, Havant
Received 10 Nov 2014Hayling Seaside Railway, Eastoke Corner, Sea Front, Hayling Island
Received 11 Nov 201468 Southleigh Road, Havant, PO9 2QJ
Received 10 Nov 201431 Elm Grove, Hayling Island, PO11 9EA
Received 11 Nov 201410 Deanswood Drive, Waterlooville, PO7 7RB
Received 12 Nov 2014108 Silverdale Drive, Waterlooville, PO7 6DX
Received 13 Nov 201414 Nore Farm Avenue, Emsworth, PO10 7NA
Received 14 Nov 2014Records 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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