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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Little Gerpins 2 (Fishers) Berwick Pond Road Rainham RM13 9EJ
Received 14 Aug 201528 Cedar Gardens Upminster RM14 2UE
Received 10 Jul 20184 Kempton Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6ED
Received 28 Feb 202417 The Glade UPMINSTER RM14 3YX
Received 31 Mar 201727 Lonsdale Avenue ROMFORD RM7 9JS
Received 5 Apr 201768, 70 and 72 Grosvenor Drive Hornchurch RM11 1PW
Received 3 Jan 201822 Melton Gardens ROMFORD RM1 2AS
Received 18 Jul 20176 Penerley Road Rainham RM13 9HD
Received 29 Sept 201549 KINGSBRIDGE ROAD ROMFORD RM3 8PA
Received 11 Jun 201820 Barton Road Hornchurch RM12 4AA
Received 3 Nov 202550 Plumpton Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6BE
Received 11 Dec 2025208 WINGLETYE LANE HORNCHURCH RM11 3AL
Received 22 Dec 2022Former Ricon Site Ashton Road Harold Hill RM3
Received 5 Aug 2014Co Op 15 Station Road Harold Wood Romford RM3 0BP
Received 20 Sept 2017112 Warren Drive Hornchurch RM12 4QX
Received 27 Aug 202451 Heron Way Upminster RM14 1EW
Received 10 Mar 201597 Cranston Park Avenue Upminster RM14 3XD
Received 21 Jan 201636 Spencer Road Rainham RM13 8HB
Received 4 Jan 2024The Lodge Care Home Lodge Lane Romford RM5 2ES
Received 7 Aug 2023108 Carlton Road Romford RM2 5BD
Received 15 Oct 2025116 Beauly Way Romford RM1 4XR
Received 11 Jan 202367 Edmund Road Rainham Essex RM13 8LX
Received 7 Aug 2017Morris Dancer Public House Melksham Close Romford RM3 8QX
Received 27 Sept 201638 Westland Avenue Hornchurch RM11 3RX
Received 4 Mar 2016Records 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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