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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
72 Squirrels Heath Lane Hornchurch RM11 2DZ
Received 8 Sept 201524 Stafford Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2ES
Received 12 Jul 2018123 Main Road Gidea Park ROMFORD RM2 6LS
Received 17 Oct 201667 Ardleigh Green Road Hornchurch RM11 2JZ
Received 24 Nov 201428 Nelwyn Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2PZ
Received 24 Apr 2015Ingrebourne Links Golf & Country Club, New Road, Rainhaim Essex RM13 9EF
Received 11 Aug 2023Land adjacent to 5 Magnum Close Rainham RM13 3PU
Received 1 Apr 202562 Sunnyside Gardens Upminster RM14 3DS
Received 29 Sept 2025O/S 119-121 South Street Romford RM1 1NX
Received 9 Jan 20175 Kiln Wood Lane Havering-atte-Bower Romford RM4 1PE
Received 5 Sept 201669 Severn Drive Upminster RM14 1QF
Received 27 Jun 201677 HILLVIEW AVENUE HORNCHURCH RM11 2DN
Received 11 Aug 202391 Albany Road HORNCHURCH RM12 4AG
Received 15 May 2017Frog Island Land to the south 87 Ferry Lane Rainham
Received 29 Sept 2016Annexe 240 Mawney Road Romford RM7 8DH
Received 6 Oct 20254 Theydon Gardens RAINHAM RM13 7TU
Received 5 Sept 201662 Great Gardens Road HORNCHURCH RM11 2BA
Received 27 Jan 2017White Lodge, Main Road Romford RM2 6NR
Received 6 Dec 2022Service Station 23 New Road Rainham RM13 8DJ
Received 3 Oct 202541 Burnway Hornchurch RM11 3SN
Received 29 Mar 201675 Cranston Park Avenue Upminster Essex RM14 3XD
Received 23 Nov 2015Suttons Farm, Tomkyns Lane Upminster RM14 1TP
Received 31 May 202428 Tudor Gardens Romford RM2 5LL
Received 30 Jan 2015Plot 10, New Acres Land north west of Benskins Lane Romford RM4 1LB
Received 6 Sept 2024Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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