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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
30 Tudor Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 3DF
Received 1 Sept 20167 TUDOR DRIVE ROMFORD RM2 5LJ
Received 2 Mar 202664 Belgrave Avenue Romford . . RM2 6QA
Received 7 Aug 2019135 Howard Road Upminster RM14 2UQ
Received 9 Sept 202430 Abbots Close Rainham RM13 9LA
Received 29 Aug 202362 BYRON WAY ROMFORD RM3 7PS
Received 22 Jun 202640 Alma Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6SR
Received 7 Oct 2014Land North of Southend Arterial Road Hornchurch RM11 3UB
Received 5 Jun 201821 Courtenay Gardens Upminster RM14 1DH
Received 21 Jan 201549A HAVERING ROAD ROMFORD RM1 4QT
Received 4 Sept 20173 Cranbrook Drive Gidea Park RM2 6AP
Received 10 Oct 201693 Heath Park Road ROMFORD RM2 5XA
Received 1 Nov 201757 MINSTER WAY HORNCHURCH RM11 3TD
Received 25 May 202353 Ravensbourne Crescent ROMFORD RM3 0UD
Received 18 Apr 201671 Birkbeck Road Romford RM7 0QR
Received 7 Jul 201526 WINDSOR ROAD HORNCHURCH RM11 1PD
Received 11 May 202640 Lodge Lane Romford RM5 2EJ
Received 27 Apr 2018136 Bevan Way Hornchurch RM12 6DT
Received 17 Apr 202621 Kings Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 1LA
Received 8 Feb 2017The Optimist Hacton Lane Hornchurch RM14 2XY
Received 21 Jun 201926A South Street Rainham RM13 8PJ
Received 11 Sept 2025132 Grosvenor Drive HORNCHURCH RM11 1PG
Received 24 Nov 201782 Heath Park Road Romford RM2 5XH
Received 8 Jan 202419 Marshalls Drive Romford RM1 4JR
Received 19 Apr 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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