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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
72 Laburnum Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4HA
Received 12 Sept 2022Former Angel Way Retail Park Angel Way Romford RM1 1JH
Received 10 Oct 202522 Glenton Way Romford RM1 4AG
Received 2 May 202388 Parkway Romford RM2 5PL
Received 9 Sept 2024Emerson Park Academy Wych Elm Road HORNCHURCH RM11 3AD
Received 30 Oct 2017W R Bird 1 Station Parade Elm Park HORNCHURCH RM12 5AB
Received 4 Sept 2017212 Osborne Road HORNCHURCH RM11 1HN
Received 26 May 201618 Suttons Lane Hornchurch RM12 6RL
Received 22 Jan 202423 Hall Lane Upminster RM14 1AF
Received 1 Sept 20264 Guildford Gardens Romford RM3 8LS
Received 29 Aug 201419 Parsonage Road Rainham
Received 31 Jan 201919 Crystal Avenue Romford RM12 6AB
Received 1 Nov 201657 Clyde Way Romford RM1 4XT
Received 8 Jul 20188 Oxford Avenue Hornchurch RM11 3ES
Received 24 Jul 2015Knightswood Place (Dovers Corner) Rainham
Received 10 Sept 202426 Byron Way Romford RM3 7PS
Received 5 Dec 202321 Yew Tree Gardens Romford RM7 9AA
Received 6 Apr 20234 Penerley Road Rainham RM13 9HD
Received 2 May 201841 Parkstone Avenue Hornchurch Essex RM11 3LN
Received 20 May 20161C Como Street ROMFORD RM7 7DL
Received 20 Jul 201755 Collier Row Road Romford RM5 2AU
Received 6 Oct 2018108 Riversdale Road Collier Row RM5 2NS
Received 16 Dec 201523 Woodlands Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2QT
Received 14 Jun 201896 Belgrave Avenue Romford RM2 6PU
Received 22 Dec 2014Records 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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