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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Colchester Road-existing base station adj to Harold Park Romford RM3 0YL
Received 28 Oct 2015117 Parkside Avenue Romford RM1 4NB
Received 11 Oct 201837 Albany Road Hornchurch RM12 4AE
Received 26 Sept 202534 Lancaster Drive HORNCHURCH RM12 5ST
Received 25 Jul 201730 White Hart Lane Romford RM7 8JB
Received 1 Apr 201952 The Mount Romford RM3 7LJ
Received 22 Feb 202469 Cranham Gardens Upminster RM14 1JQ
Received 13 Sept 202333 Rosewood Avenue Hornchurch
Received 31 Jul 2014Bright Futures Nursery & 173 Gooshays Drive Romford RM3 8YJ
Received 15 May 2024V and P Motors 166 Upminster Road HORNCHURCH RM14 2RB
Received 19 Jan 2018Phase 2B (Block C), Former Harold Wood Hospital Gubbins Lane Harold Wood RM3 0BE
Received 18 Mar 201963 Gooshays Drive Harold Hill Romford RM3 8PT
Received 20 Mar 2017108-110 Collier Row Road Romford RM5 2BB
Received 18 May 2023179 New Road Rainham RM13 8SH
Received 26 Aug 20165 Ockendon Road North Ockendon Ockendon Road Upminster RM14 3PT
Received 8 May 201957 Preston Road Harold Hill RM3 7YU
Received 18 Nov 201539 Roseberry Gardens Upminster RM14 1NN
Received 4 Jan 2024Tesco Express, 163 Mawney Road Romford RM7 8AB
Received 10 Sept 2025Berwick Ponds Farm Berwick Pond Road Rainham RM13 9EJ
Received 30 Mar 20179 Priory Grove Romford RM3 9AS
Received 14 Aug 202512 Evansdale RAINHAM RM13 8JR
Received 10 Feb 201858 Weald Way Romford RM7 9PD
Received 20 Nov 201826 Bridge Avenue Upminster RM14 2LX
Received 15 Sept 202526 Briar Road Romford RM3 8AP
Received 30 May 2019Records 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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