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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
3 Wren Gardens Hornchurch RM12 4DT
Received 17 Jul 2023140 Clockhouse Lane ROMFORD RM5 2TJ
Received 29 Dec 201729 Pettits Lane Romford RM1 4HH
Received 26 Apr 201621 Brookside Hornchurch RM11 2RR
Received 28 Jul 2025207 Elm Park Avenue HORNCHURCH RM12 4RZ
Received 8 Dec 20175 Balgores Square Romford RM2 6AU
Received 30 Mar 202629 Mawney Road Romford RM7 7HL
Received 23 Sept 202293 FOREST ROAD ROMFORD RM7 8DU
Received 25 Mar 2024160A-162A Hornchurch Road Hornchurch RM11 1QH
Received 10 Dec 2018116 OSBORNE ROAD HORNCHURCH RM11 1HF
Received 21 May 2026Unit C1 Barlow Way Rainham RM13 8BT
Received 3 Nov 20235 Leasway Upminster RM14 3AJ
Received 10 Sept 2025134 The Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4JG
Received 20 May 202492-94 North Street ROMFORD RM1 1DA
Received 11 Jan 201817 The Elkins Romford RM1 4HT
Received 17 Jul 202626B Crow Lane Romford RM7 0EL
Received 25 Sept 2024Three Horseshoe Farm Noak Hill Road ROMFORD RM3 7LD
Received 22 Jun 20176A Freeman Way Emerson Park Hornchurch RM11 3PH
Received 25 Jan 202460 CROSSWAYS ROMFORD RM2 6AL
Received 4 Sept 2023115 Westland Avenue Honrchurch RM11 3RX
Received 5 Mar 202629 ROSEBANK AVENUE HORNCHURCH RM12 5QX
Received 4 Jun 20262 Suttons Gardens HORNCHURCH RM12 4LD
Received 7 Oct 201731 Grangewood Avenue Rainham RM13 9PA
Received 16 Sept 2019130 CAMBRIDGE AVENUE ROMFORD RM2 6RA
Received 3 Apr 2023Records 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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