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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
38 Links Avenue ROMFORD RM2 6ND
Received 17 Nov 201616 Knightswood Road Rainham RM13 8SE
Received 26 Oct 20182 Derby Avenue Upminster RM14 2NR
Received 11 Mar 2016Bulphan Fen Solar Farm Land at Fen Lane Bulphan RM14 3RB
Received 24 Mar 20236 Bridge Avenue Upminster RM14 2LX
Received 1 May 2018Pages Farm Shepherds Hill Romford RM3 0NL
Received 2 Jul 20192 Halewood Way Rainham RM13 8QZ
Received 21 Aug 2023137 Park Lane Hornchurch RM11 1EQ
Received 15 May 2026Footpath Adj 249 London Road London Road London Borough of Havering RM7 9NB
Received 29 Mar 2023121 and 123 Chelmsford Avenue Collier Row Romford RM5 3XB
Received 4 Mar 201448 Gaynes Park Road Upminster RM14 2HP
Received 15 Jul 202575 North Street Hornchurch RM11 1ST
Received 15 Jul 2019182 Abbs Cross Lane Hornchurch RM12 4XR
Received 24 Sept 2014Rear yard area, Wyngray Farm St Mary's Lane Upminster RM14 3NX
Received 8 Sept 201635 HAROLD COURT ROAD ROMFORD RM3 0YX
Received 17 Nov 201722 Grey Towers Avenue Hornchurch RM11 1JF
Received 14 Jul 20251A Sylvan Avenue HORNCHURCH RM11 2PL
Received 31 Jan 201813 Guildford Road Romford RM3 8LR
Received 6 Feb 202318 Roding Way Rainham RM13 9QD
Received 16 Feb 202459 Betterton Road Rainham RM13 8NB
Received 28 Oct 202531 Maylands Avenue HORNCHURCH RM12 5BB
Received 21 Feb 201710 Argyle Gardens Upminster RM14 3HJ
Received 9 Oct 20157 Belmont Avenue Upminster RM14 2RR
Received 11 Jun 202469 BARTON AVENUE ROMFORD RM7 0NB
Received 24 Aug 2017Records 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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