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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 Goldsmith Avenue ROMFORD RM7 0EX
Received 1 Feb 201810 New Place Gardens Upminster RM14 3DQ
Received 9 Jan 2019172 WENNINGTON ROAD RAINHAM RM13 9DG
Received 28 Jun 2023128 Hillview Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2DL
Received 6 Nov 2017South Hornchurch Library Rainham Road Rainham RM13 7RD
Received 29 Sept 2016(Rear Of) 195-197 New Road Rainham RM13 8SJ
Received 10 Jun 201484 Dorking Road ROMFORD RM3 9YX
Received 28 Nov 201626 Briar Road Romford RM3 8AP
Received 5 Sept 201825 LYNTON AVENUE ROMFORD RM7 8NR
Received 11 Jan 201858 Vicarage Road HORNCHURCH RM12 4AT
Received 11 Aug 201630 Heron Way Upminster RM14 1EP
Received 19 May 2015Latimer Drive HORNCHURCH RM12 6TN
Received 21 Apr 201624 Heather Glen Romford RM1 4SR
Received 17 Dec 2015Land rear of 2 & 3 Blewitts Cottages New Road Rainham RM10 8SL
Received 1 Jun 201833 Ardleigh Green Road Hornchurch RM11 2JZ
Received 6 Jan 202329 Edison Avenue HORNCHURCH RM12 4DZ
Received 23 Jan 2017Tesco Stores Ltd Bridge Road Rainham RM13 9YZ
Received 2 Dec 2014116 Cecil Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2ND
Received 8 Sept 201451 Lawns Way Romford RM5 3TH
Received 15 Mar 202334 Clitheroe Road Romford RM5 2SL
Received 17 Nov 202260A SOUTH END ROAD RAINHAM RM13 7XJ
Received 16 Oct 201723 SUDBURY CLOSE ROMFORD RM3 9FL
Received 13 Apr 201864 Egbert Close Hornchurch RM12 5DE
Received 18 Jun 201812 Nelmes Road Hornchurch RM11 3JA
Received 14 Jun 2019Records 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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