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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 Heaton Way Romford RM3 7HA
Received 14 Feb 2018St Peters RC Primary School Dorset Avenue Romford RM1 4JA
Received 7 Dec 201519 Macdonald Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2NF
Received 4 Dec 2023Shurgard House 3 Rush Green Road Romford RM7 0PT
Received 21 May 20244 Squirrels Heath Avenue Romford
Received 8 Feb 20196 Fleet Avenue Upminster Essex RM14 1PY
Received 27 Jan 202320 Ravenscourt Grove Hornchurch RM12 6HS
Received 12 Nov 202447 St Andrews Avenue Hornchurch RM12 5DU
Received 19 Dec 202452 Redden Court Road Romford RM3 0XA
Received 12 Feb 202357 Mawney Road Romford RM7 7HL
Received 5 Apr 2018Chafford School Lambs Lane South Rainham RM13 9XD
Received 14 Dec 20236 Sunnycroft Gardens Upminster RM14 1HP
Received 22 Feb 2019Advertising Right Jcdecaux (Premiere 005301) r/O 168 Mawney Road ROMFORD RM7 8BU
Received 23 Jan 2018Cherico, 22 Woodlands Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2QU
Received 16 Aug 2024The Crumpled Horn 33-37 Corbets Tey Road RM14 2AJ
Received 3 Mar 201710A The Avenue Hornchurch Essex RM12 4JL
Received 10 Apr 20157 Mansfield Gardens Hornchurch RM12 4NL
Received 12 Nov 201549-51 Gaynes Park Road Upminster RM14 2HL
Received 24 Aug 2018132 Daventry Road Romford RM3 7RH
Received 7 Dec 202363 Avon Road Upminster RM14 1RE
Received 27 Mar 20232 Lita Mews Romford RM1 3FG
Received 2 Jul 20252 Evansdale Rainham
Received 16 Jan 201862 Rosewood Avenue Elm Park RM12 5LH
Received 11 Feb 2016161a Hacton Lane Upminster RM14 2YE
Received 11 Jan 2016Records 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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