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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
18A Homeway Romford RM3 0HD
Received 14 Jul 2015Will Perrin Court Guysfield Drive RM13 7BH
Received 17 Oct 201656 Norwood Avenue Romford RM7 0QH
Received 1 Dec 2025Havering College Of Further And Higher Education Ardleigh Green Road Hornchurch RM11 2LL
Received 8 Dec 20231 Abbots Close Rainham RM13 9LA
Received 17 Jun 2025Land adjacent to 46 Penrith Road Romford Essex RM3 9NJ
Received 9 Dec 20229 Como Street Romford
Received 19 Mar 201288 HOWARD ROAD UPMINSTER RM14 2UU
Received 2 May 202330 Merlin Gardens Romford RM5 3YD
Received 12 Dec 201455 Hyland Close Hornchurch RM11 1DX
Received 7 Nov 2022Drapers Academy Settle Road ROMFORD RM3 9XR
Received 7 Mar 201720 Norfolk Road Romford
Received 6 Feb 2014Cockabourne Court Archibald Road Harold Hill RM3 0RR
Received 21 May 2018North of St Mary's Lane- Winchester Ave (west) & Pike Lane ( St Mary's Lane Cranham RM14 3LT
Received 5 Aug 2023146 CHASE CROSS ROAD ROMFORD RM5 3UU
Received 4 Jul 202388 Collier Row Road Romford RM5 2BH
Received 14 Jul 201766 Little Gaynes Lane UPMINSTER RM14 2JD
Received 6 Mar 201768 Ernest Road Hornchurch RM11 3JW
Received 9 Apr 2026AVON HOUSE 172 AVON ROAD UPMINSTER RM14 1RQ
Received 17 Dec 202475 North Street Hornchurch RM11 1ST
Received 16 Apr 20181 Playfield Avenue ROMFORD RM5 3JH
Received 24 Aug 201712 Engayne Gardens Upminster RM14 1UZ
Received 14 Oct 201862 Heath Drive Romford RM2 5QR
Received 27 Mar 202644 Worcester Avenue Upminster RM14 3LA
Received 25 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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