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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Hill Rise UPMINSTER RM14 2RA
Received 27 Feb 20177 Dorkins Way UPMINSTER RM14 1XX
Received 7 Jun 201618 Elm Avenue Upminster
Received 3 Sept 2014217 Wingletye Lane Hornchurch RM11 3BL
Received 5 Jun 201931 Ashlyn Grove Hornchurch RM11 2EQ
Received 3 May 201825 Squirrels Heath Road Romford RM3 0LH
Received 9 Oct 202438 St Johns Road Romford RM5 2RU
Received 11 Jun 201941 Squirrels Heath Road Harold Wood Romford RM3 0LH
Received 14 Jan 201619 Elm Grove Emerson Park Hornchurch RM11 2QX
Received 22 Apr 2014Land at Rom Valley Way (formerly Romford Ice Rink) Rom Valley Way Romford
Received 31 Mar 202138 Clarence Avenue Upminster Essex RM14 2RL
Received 3 Dec 2018131 Brentwood Road Romford RM1 2SB
Received 27 Apr 201597 Cranham Gardens Upminster RM14 1JN
Received 23 Jun 2015133 Hillview Avenue HORNCHURCH RM11 2DL
Received 8 Mar 2018315 Mawney Road Romford RM7 8DR
Received 12 Jun 202340 Mill Park Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6HD
Received 2 Mar 202371 Minster Way Hornchurch RM11 3TD
Received 10 Nov 2015St George's Hospital Suttons Lane Hornchurch RM12 6RR
Received 21 Feb 202395 Coniston Avenue Upminster RM14 3XL
Received 9 Apr 20158 Tamar Close Upminster RM14 1QH
Received 19 Jan 2026193 Alma Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6BH
Received 9 May 2019261 Wingletye Lane Hornchurch RM11 3BT
Received 11 Jan 20235 Ronald Road Romford RM3 0RB
Received 9 Nov 202312 Eastwood Drive RAINHAM RM13 9HQ
Received 6 Apr 2017Records 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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