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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Chippenham Road Land bounded by Chippenham Road, Kings Lynn Drive, Darftiel Romford RM3 8HX
Received 23 Jun 202652 Avon Road Upminster RM14 1RE
Received 5 Mar 201565 Upminster Road Hornchurch RM11 3XA
Received 28 Aug 202649 Gordon Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4EA
Received 7 May 201818 Beech Avenue Upminster RM14 2HN
Received 17 Mar 201520 Brackendale Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 3XB
Received 9 Sept 2017Gaynesborough Little Gaynes Lane Upminster RM14 2JB
Received 7 Aug 201581 Links Avenue Romford RM2 6NH
Received 1 Jun 2023Former Oldchurch Hospital Oldchurch Road Romford RM7 0BE
Received 29 Apr 2014Miller Close Collier Row Romford RM5 2EN
Received 1 Jun 201519 Roslyn Gardens ROMFORD RM2 5RH
Received 16 May 2016Harold Wood Station Gubbins Lane RM3 0PP
Received 20 Apr 2017(Briar Site 1A) Garage/ Parking Court Pimpernel Way Romford
Received 4 Oct 2013187 High Street Hornchurch RM11 3XT
Received 6 Jun 202423 Dorian Road Hornchurch RM12 4AN
Received 26 Jan 2015Quakers Religious Society of Friends 7 Balgores Crescent Gidea Park RM2 6AB
Received 28 Jan 2019Avelon Road Centre 100 Avelon Road RAINHAM RM13 7DH
Received 9 Nov 201618 Squirrels Heath Avenue Gidea Park Romford RM2 6AH
Received 15 Jul 201422 Ravenscourt Drive Hornchurch RM12 6HL
Received 14 Mar 2015161A Hacton Lane Hornchurch RM14 2YE
Received 28 Apr 2026464 Havering Road Romford RM1 4HR
Received 24 Sept 201537 Kersey Gardens Harold Wood Romford RM3 0ER
Received 25 Mar 20192 Humber Drive UPMINSTER RM14 1PU
Received 12 Jul 201628 Marks Road Romford RM7 7AH
Received 20 Aug 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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