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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 London Borough of Havering. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Havering website
865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Aug 2000 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Farm Road Rainham RM13 9JU
Received 6 Oct 2022Upper Bedfords Farm 109 Lower Bedfords Road Romford RM1 4DQ
Received 15 May 201972 Garry Way ROMFORD RM1 4YT
Received 16 Feb 2018148 Ardleigh Green Road Hornchurch RM11 2SR
Received 1 Oct 2025Crownfield Infants School White Hart Lane Romford
Received 2 May 201718 Sunnyside Gardens Upminster RM14 3DS
Received 11 Dec 202513 Sunnyside Gardens Upminster RM14 3DT
Received 8 Aug 201719 Milton Avenue Hornchurch Essex RM12 4BW
Received 23 Aug 201912 Betterton Road Rainham RM13 8NA
Received 19 Mar 2024King Harold 51 Station Road Harold Wood Romford RM3 0BS
Received 20 Jul 201814 Forth Road Upminster RM14 1PX
Received 28 Jun 201819 Blyth Walk Upminster RM14 1RR
Received 8 Aug 201919 Brook Road Romford RM2 5QS
Received 4 Aug 2015Horseshoe Farm North Road Havering-atte-Bower ROMFORD RM4 1QA
Received 1 May 20171 Lynbrook Close Rainham
Received 27 Jun 201690 New Road Rainham RM13 8RS
Received 7 Sept 2016Phase 1 - Beam park Land South of New Road (A1306) New Road L.B Havering RM13 8BU
Received 4 Jun 2019Outside 142 South Street Romford RM1 1SX
Received 14 Aug 202417 Upper Rainham Road HORNCHURCH RM12 4BE
Received 11 Dec 201755 Coniston Avenue UPMINSTER RM14 3XL
Received 12 Mar 201814 VERNON ROAD ROMFORD RM5 3DF
Received 3 Feb 20264 Acacia Drive Upminster RM14 2LJ
Received 25 Aug 20237 Cedar Road Romford RM7 7JR
Received 9 Sept 2014103 UPPER RAINHAM ROAD HORNCHURCH RM12 4EF
Received 23 Jan 2024Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for London Borough of Havering, 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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