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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
20 Pinecroft Gidea Park Romford RM2 6DG
Received 21 Jun 201874 THE GROVE UPMINSTER RM14 2ET
Received 2 Mar 201842 Gaynes Park Road Upminster RM14 2HP
Received 13 Oct 20142 Mead Close Romford RM2 5NX
Received 22 Oct 20251 Oak Street Romford RM7 7BS
Received 28 Oct 202526 Reed Pond Walk Romford RM2 5PB
Received 25 Jan 20248 Granger Way Romford RM1 2RU
Received 10 Apr 2015300 South End Road Rainham RM13 7YB
Received 25 Oct 2023230-236 Hornchurch Road Land to r/o Hornchurch RM11 1QB
Received 4 Jan 2019256 South Street Romford RM1 2AD
Received 19 Jan 202342 Homeway Romford RM3 0HD
Received 17 Apr 202687 Whitchurch Road Romford RM3 9EU
Received 25 Sept 202314 Ravenscourt Grove Hornchurch RM12 6HS
Received 8 Jun 201662 Tring Gardens ROMFORD RM3 9EJ
Received 9 Dec 201726 Link Way Hornchurch RM11 3RW
Received 25 Jan 201639 Links Avenue Romford RM2 6NB
Received 17 Mar 2016150 Whitchurch Road Romford RM3 9AD
Received 18 Jan 202354 Winchester Avenue Upminster RM14 3LR
Received 6 Feb 202673 Gaynes Park Road Upminster RM14 2HP
Received 21 May 2026137 LABURNUM WALK HORNCHURCH RM12 5RJ
Received 25 Mar 202450 Havering Drive Romford RM1 4BH
Received 1 Apr 2016136 Collier Row Lane Romford Essex RM5 3DU
Received 4 Jan 201755 Alma Avenue Hornchurch Essex RM12 6SS
Received 8 Apr 20192 Ashvale Gardens Romford RM5 3QA
Received 16 Oct 2018Records 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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