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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Nightingale House 57 Main Road Romford RM2 5EH
Received 30 Jul 20253 Gaynes Road Upminster RM14 3YS
Received 29 Sept 201675 Calbourne Avenue Hornchurch RM12 5BH
Received 19 Sept 2025Unit 10 The Brewery Romford RM1 1AU
Received 27 Sept 2019Pinewoods St Johns Road ROMFORD RM5 2RS
Received 4 May 201772 Wennington Road Rainham RM13 9UB
Received 26 Aug 202538 Squirrels Heath Avenue Gidea Park Romford Essex RM2 6AH
Received 8 Oct 201523 Links Avenue Romford RM2 6NB
Received 13 Jun 202525 Furness Way Hornchurch RM12 5JH
Received 18 Jul 2023131 Brentwood Road Romford RM1 2SB
Received 8 Mar 2017Waterloo Road junction of Exchange Street (land at) Romford RM1 1AU
Received 4 Aug 20161A Hulse Avenue Romford RM7 8NT
Received 31 Jul 202431 Bruce Avenue HORNCHURCH RM12 4JF
Received 15 Dec 20165 ST NEOTS ROAD ROMFORD RM3 9LS
Received 18 Sept 2023222 Havering Road Romford RM1 4TD
Received 23 Sept 2018122 Upminster Road South Rainham RM13 9AB
Received 31 Mar 202332 Risebridge Road ROMFORD RM2 5PR
Received 7 Apr 201735 Benets Road Hornchurch RM11 3PS
Received 29 Jan 2015Base Station East of Junction with Lambs Lane South New Road Rainham RM13 9PL
Received 25 May 201686 The Drive Collier Row Romford RM5 3UH
Received 3 Aug 2018115 Westland Avenue Hornchurch RM11 3RX
Received 26 Aug 2026280 Main Road Gidea Park Romford RM2 6LU
Received 10 Oct 201623 Woodhall Crescent Hornchurch RM11 3NN
Received 27 Feb 202361A South Street ROMFORD RM1 1NL
Received 14 Dec 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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