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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Church Of St John The Divine Mawney Road Romford RM7 7BH
Received 4 Mar 201928 The Green Wennington Road Wennington Rainham RM13
Received 6 May 201612 Messant Close Harold Wood ROMFORD RM3 0WP
Received 18 Aug 201713 Grimstone Close Collier Row Romford RM5 2PT
Received 15 Jan 201976 Chase Cross Road Romford RM5 3PP
Received 17 Oct 2022129 Albany Road Hornchurch RM12 4AQ
Received 12 May 202334 HARTLAND ROAD HORNCHURCH RM12 4AD
Received 25 Sept 20174 Witham Road Romford RM2 5XB
Received 20 Dec 2024West Park Lodge Farm Broxhill Road Havering Atte-Bower Romford RM4 1QH
Received 24 Aug 201617 Princes Road Romford RM1 2SR
Received 16 Mar 201541 South Hall Drive Rainham RM13 9HJ
Received 26 Oct 2022Lnd East of Warley Substation, Clay Tye Road Upminster RM14 3PL
Received 30 Aug 202449A New Road Rainham RM13 8DR
Received 23 Feb 202623-55 North Street Romford RM1 1BJ
Received 15 Aug 202414 Rainham Road Rainham RM13 7RR
Received 18 Mar 202421 Richmond Road Romford RM1 2DX
Received 4 Jul 201611 Engayne Gardens Upminster RM14 1UY
Received 10 Apr 2026162 GUBBINS LANE ROMFORD RM3 0DL
Received 22 Sept 202516 Boundary Road Upminster RM14 2QS
Received 28 Feb 201762 Gaynes Park Road Upminster RM14 2HU
Received 30 Mar 2015304 Eastern Avenue East Gidea Park Romford
Received 10 Aug 201729 ETHELBURGA ROAD ROMFORD RM3 0QR
Received 11 May 2017135 Benhurst Avenue Elm Park
Received 20 Feb 20143 Copthorne Gardens Hornchurch RM11 3DL
Received 24 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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