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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 South End Road Rainham RM13 7XH
Received 3 Jun 2026Upminster Cemetery Ockendon Road Upminster RM14 2UY
Received 12 May 201535 Victoria Road Romford RM1 2LH
Received 17 Mar 2016Clarewood Hubbards Close Hornchurch RM11 3DH
Received 24 Mar 2023Scargill Infants School Mungo Park Road Rainham RM13 7PL
Received 30 Apr 201941 Heather Way Rise Park Romford Essex RM1 4SX
Received 23 Feb 202348 Boscombe Avenue Hornchurch RM11 1JG
Received 4 Aug 2014Land Adjacent to The Lodge Lodge Lane
Received 10 Mar 2026179 Cross Road Romford RM5 3YJ
Received 17 Sept 20141A Moss Lane Romford RM1 2PT
Received 25 Feb 2014Epsticks Farm Warwick Lane Rainham RM13 9EW
Received 20 Oct 201433 Cranston Park Avenue Upminster RM14 3UT
Received 21 Dec 201522 Heath Drive Gidea Park Romford
Received 5 Aug 2016174 Suttons Lane Hornchurch RM12 6RU
Received 8 Sept 201522 Camborne Avenue Romford RM3 8QP
Received 25 Nov 2016131 Gooshays Drive ROMFORD RM3 8AE
Received 24 Jul 2017123A Pettits Lane Romford RM1 4EJ
Received 9 Aug 201833 The Woodfines Hornchurch Essex RM11 3HR
Received 8 Sept 202310 Sunnyside Gardens Upminster RM14 3DS
Received 6 Jun 201939 Cedar Avenue Upminster RM14 2LN
Received 4 Apr 2019Land to rear of 1-13 Kenley Gardens Romford RM12 6PD
Received 18 Sept 2019Land at Rom Valley Way (formerly Romford Ice Rink) Rom Valley Way Romford
Received 7 May 202610 Prestwood Drive Romford RM5 2SS
Received 12 Apr 2019327 London Road Romford RM7 9NS
Received 13 Jun 2019Records 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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