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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Brickfield Cottages Broxhill Road Havering-atte-Bower Romford RM4 1QJ
Received 8 Dec 2014Havendale 58 Orange Tree Hill Havering-atte-Bower Romford RM4 1PB
Received 1 Feb 2016130 Corbets Tey Road Upminster RM14 2ED
Received 9 Sept 201931 Links Avenue Gidea Park RM2 6NB
Received 18 May 201711 Front Lane Upminster RM14 3YD
Received 1 Jul 2026148A Chase Cross Road Romford RM5 3UU
Received 8 May 2019167 Brentwood Road ROMFORD RM1 2SJ
Received 12 Dec 201760 Laburnum Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4HA
Received 16 Dec 2022Hunt Court 3 Union Road Romford RM7 0GN
Received 7 Aug 20181 Ethelburga Road Romford RM3 0QR
Received 9 Jan 2024The White Lodge, 78 Orange Tree Hill Romford RM4 1PJ
Received 13 Feb 2024161 Church Road Harold Wood Romford RM3 0SD
Received 23 Oct 2015Century Youth House Albert Road Romford RM1 2PS
Received 1 May 202619 Longtown Road Romford RM3 7QL
Received 13 Dec 2024122 North Street Hornchurch RM11 1SU
Received 28 May 20191A The Sheilings Hornchurch RM11 2QD
Received 22 Sept 2023Land NE of Church Road, Noak Hill Romford RM4 1LD
Received 1 Dec 2025All Car Spares Ltd, Walden Avenue Rainham RM13 8EA
Received 30 Mar 202614 Woodlands Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2QU
Received 3 May 2023127-133 High Street Hornchurch RM11 1TX
Received 25 Jun 202410 Thorogood Way Rainham RM13 7SJ
Received 2 Mar 202617-19 Market Place Romford RM1 3AB
Received 26 Sept 20167 Highview Gardens (Land Adj) Upminster RM14 2YU
Received 16 Apr 201531 Crossways Romford RM2 6AJ
Received 8 Nov 2022Records 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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