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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
189 St Marys Lane Upminster RM14 3BU
Received 4 Nov 202414 Esdaile Gardens Upminster RM14 1BU
Received 21 Mar 20231 Waldegrave Gardens Upminster RM14 1UR
Received 23 Sept 2026Phase 2A, Former Harold Wood Hospital Gubbins Lane RM3 0BE
Received 1 Apr 2016139 Argyle Gardens Upminster RM14 3EU
Received 12 Sept 201961 Junction Road Romford RM1 3QR
Received 22 Nov 202411 Coniston Avenue Upminster RM14 3XR
Received 10 Apr 2018Dunelm Romford, Eastern Avenue West Romford RM7 7JN
Received 5 May 2023Viking Business Centre Danes Road Romford RM7 0HL
Received 5 May 2016Land east of 2 & 2A Tennyson Road Romford RM3 7AD
Received 2 Sept 20261 Carisbrooke Close Hornchurch RM11 3QP
Received 10 Mar 201631 Poplar Street land adj Romford
Received 16 Jan 201515 Eastwood Drive Rainham RM13 9HQ
Received 14 Mar 202367 Fairholme Avenue Romford RM2 5UR
Received 22 Mar 202415 Crossways Romford RM2 6AA
Received 5 Oct 202241 Corbets Tey Road Upminster RM14 2AJ
Received 21 Nov 202231A Brook Road Romford RM2 5QS
Received 7 Oct 2025Fairview Industrial Park, Time Wholesale Services Uk Ltd Marsh Way Rainham RM13 8UH
Received 20 Aug 202514 MOUNT AVENUE ROMFORD RM3 0DE
Received 9 Apr 2024226 Goodwood Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6DH
Received 21 Jan 202611 Queens Gardens Cranham RM14 1NQ
Received 29 Jul 2016Langtons Junior and Infant School Westland Avenue HORNCHURCH RM11 3SD
Received 22 Jun 201664 Cross Road Romford RM7 8DX
Received 18 Jun 2026Hare Lodge Upper Brentwood Road ROMFORD RM2 6LA
Received 6 Dec 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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