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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
16 Hardley Crescent HORNCHURCH RM11 2EL
Received 6 Jul 2017622 R/O 622 UPPER BRENTWOOD ROAD ESSEX RM2 6HS
Received 7 Aug 2023Rear of 396 Upminster Road North RAINHAM RM13 9SA
Received 22 Jun 201738 Betterton Road Rainham RM13 8NB
Received 18 Jul 2024137 Hilldene Avenue Romford RM3 8DL
Received 27 Nov 2023Land rear to 8-28 Ullswater Way Hornchurch RM12 5JU
Received 21 Jul 20143 Dominion Drive ROMFORD RM5 2QS
Received 23 Feb 2017106 Osborne Road Hornchurch RM11 1HF
Received 27 Apr 201611 Ramsden Drive Romford RM5 2NJ
Received 16 Dec 2024288 Brentwood Road H And R Higginson Romford RM2 5TA
Received 22 Mar 201934 Burwood Gardens Rainham RM13 8JS
Received 10 Jul 201844 London Road Romford RM7 9RB
Received 12 Jun 2019Tara Southend Arterial Road Hornchurch RM2 6PL
Received 26 Jan 20175 Playfield Avenue Romford RM5 3LD
Received 11 Nov 202453 Parkstone Avenue Hornchurch RM11 3LN
Received 28 Oct 2025561 Upper Brentwood Road Romford RM2 6LH
Received 29 Jul 2025274 Mawney Road Romford RM7 8DL
Received 17 Oct 202337 Lake Avenue Rainham RM13 9SH
Received 25 Jul 201842 Coleridge Road Romford RM3 7BB
Received 26 Jan 2026Chaucer Stone Lower Bedfords Road RM1 4DQ
Received 28 Apr 2016Land adjacent to Hillside Farm Bower Farm Road Havering-atte-bower Romford RM4 1QR
Received 29 Nov 202349 Cromer Road Hornchurch RM11 1EY
Received 12 Mar 201531 Garry Way Romford RM1 4YU
Received 10 Dec 202474 Chelmsford Drive Upminster RM14 2PD
Received 29 Jan 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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