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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Harold Hill Library, Hilldene Avenue Romford RM3 8DJ
Received 1 Apr 2026296 Straight Road Romford RM3 8XX
Received 24 Sept 2014Corbets Tey School Harwood Hall Lane Upminster RM14 2YQ
Received 25 Feb 201951 Herbert Road Hornchurch RM11 3LL
Received 21 Dec 2015130 Dagenham Road Rainham RM13 7TA
Received 7 Mar 2017R/O 389 St Marys Lane Upminster RM14 3HR
Received 26 Jan 20247 Wilton Drive Collier Row Romford RM5 3TJ
Received 30 Jan 2017113 Abbs Cross Lane Hornchurch RM12 4XP
Received 17 Sept 201930 Park Drive Romford RM1 4LH
Received 29 Apr 2015Grass verge southeast of The Aspen Tree public house on the junction of Gobions Avenue and Havering Road Collier Row RM5 3ND
Received 8 Mar 20233 Tyrsal Close Hornchurch RM11 3BF
Received 20 Mar 20198 St Georges Avenue Hornchurch RM11 3PD
Received 9 Sept 2026Rear of 66 Crow Lane Romford RM7 0EP
Received 18 May 202333 Walmer Close Romford RM7 8QH
Received 20 Jan 201633 Rothbury Avenue Rainham . . Rm13 9HY
Received 25 Jun 201850 Stratton Road Romford RM3 9UD
Received 18 Apr 2023Chafford Farm House Aveley Road UPMINSTER RM14 2TE
Received 2 Aug 2017151-153 North Street Romford RM1 1ED
Received 13 Apr 201594 Plumpton Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6BD
Received 27 Feb 2023Rainham Marshes Rainham
Received 22 May 20197 Urban Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4NU
Received 22 Aug 2025Hornchurch Service Station Suttons Lane Hornchurch RM12 6RJ
Received 20 May 201550 Argyle Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 3HJ
Received 2 Jun 2016101 Collier Row Road Romford RM5 2AT
Received 7 Feb 2023Records 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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