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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 Maybank Avenue (Land Adj) Hornchurch RM12 5SB
Received 9 Mar 201511 BELGRAVE AVENUE ROMFORD RM2 6QD
Received 11 Sept 2017Fryatt Lodge 64 Brooklands Road Romford RM7 7EB
Received 30 Jan 201815 Dudley Road Romford RM3 8LH
Received 9 Aug 201972 Pettits Lane Romford RM1 4ET
Received 16 Jul 2019Century Youth House Albert Road Romford RM1 2PS
Received 14 Jul 202697 Rainham Road Rainham RM13 7QX
Received 23 Jul 201944 Heaton Way Harold Hill Romford Essex RM3 7HA
Received 20 Dec 201627 Mill Park Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6HD
Received 26 Feb 2026Ashton Gate, Unit 13 & 14 Ashton Road Romford Harold Hill RM3 8UF
Received 28 Sept 202630 Harrow Crescent Romford RM3 7AB
Received 27 Nov 201533 Platford Green land adj Hornchurch RM11 2TA
Received 11 Jul 2018The Cottage Tomkyns Lane Tylers Common Upminster RM14 1TP
Received 5 Mar 201539 Laburnham Gardens Upminster RM14 1HX
Received 17 Jul 2018127 South End Road Rainham RM13 7XS
Received 20 Oct 201613 Juliette Mews Romford RM1 2BF
Received 24 Nov 201434 Bruce Avenue Hornchurch
Received 27 Mar 201478 - 80 Straight Road Romford RM3 8AA
Received 4 Apr 201660 Weald Way ROMFORD RM7 9PD
Received 20 Dec 201615 Hunters Grove Romford RM5 2UH
Received 17 Jan 20191 Albert Road Romford RM1 2PD
Received 26 Sept 201818 Saffron Road Romford RM5 3ES
Received 25 Nov 202422 South View Drive Upminster RM14 2LR
Received 22 Dec 20141 Bell Corner Corbets Tey Road UPMINSTER RM14 2AT
Received 10 Jul 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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