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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Hall Terrace Colchester Road ROMFORD RM3 0XR
Received 5 Jun 201768 Ernest Road HORNCHURCH RM11 3JW
Received 16 Jun 2016136 Lynton Avenue Romford RM7 8NA
Received 13 Aug 20196f Albright Industial Estate Ferry Lane North Rainham RM13 9BU
Received 5 Feb 2018Hornchurch Service Station Southend Arterial Road Hornchurch RM11 2SE
Received 24 Jan 202333 Prospect Road Hornchurch RM11 3TY
Received 3 Apr 202312 Fairholme Avenue ROMFORD RM2 5UU
Received 5 Jun 2017178 Suttons Lane HORNCHURCH RM12 6RU
Received 13 Jun 201620 Champion Road Upminster Essex RM14 2SY
Received 18 Nov 201644 Collier Row Road Romford RM5 3PA
Received 27 Aug 201969 Cromer Road Hornchurch RM11 1EY
Received 10 Feb 2023Ginger Lounge 121-123 Corbets Tey Road Upminster RM14 2AA
Received 7 Jun 201626 Carnforth Gardens HORNCHURCH RM12 5DJ
Received 16 Aug 201741 ALDBOROUGH ROAD UPMINSTER RM14 2RP
Received 28 Apr 202611 Brook Road Romford RM2 5QS
Received 10 Sept 202578 Squirrels Heath Lane Hornchurch RM11 2DZ
Received 9 Apr 20199 Chase Cross Road Romford RM5 3PJ
Received 18 Feb 201514 Lonsdale Avenue ROMFORD RM7 9JT
Received 27 Mar 2017189 St Marys Lane Upminster RM14 3BU
Received 9 Sept 2024All Saints Church The Chase Upminster RM14 3YB
Received 11 Dec 2017126 Howard Road UPMINSTER RM14 2UU
Received 5 Sept 201753 Wentworth Way Rainham RM13 9NL
Received 10 Sept 201564 South Street Romford RM1 1RB
Received 14 May 2015R/O 4-6 Helen Road Hornchurch
Received 18 Jun 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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