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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Tamar Close Upminster RM14 1QH
Received 22 Jul 20244 Harrow Crescent ROMFORD RM3 7AB
Received 2 Nov 201638 Harrow Crescent Romford RM3 7AJ
Received 10 Sept 2015Century Youth House Albert Road Romford RM1 2PS
Received 26 Mar 2026140 & 142 Squirrels Heath Road Romford RM3 0LU
Received 12 Oct 201594 Macdonald Avenue Hornchurch Essex RM11 2NE
Received 29 Jul 201544 Milton Avenue Hornchurch
Received 5 Mar 201449 Malvern Road Hornchurch RM11 1BG
Received 21 Dec 20175 Copthorne Gardens HORNCHURCH RM11 3DL
Received 19 Feb 201813 Heather Drive ROMFORD RM1 4SP
Received 6 Dec 201751 Halidon Rise ROMFORD RM3 0YL
Received 7 Nov 201721 Browne Close ROMFORD RM5 2HD
Received 31 May 20173 Silvermere Avenue Romford RM5 2QB
Received 10 Feb 2019Capel Nelmes 1 Sylvan Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2PL
Received 3 Jun 2019Units 2, 3a, 4, 4a and 5 The Old Brickworks Indust Estate Church Road Harold Wood Romford RM3 0JA
Received 3 Nov 201648,50 & 52 Gubbins Lane Romford RM3 0PU
Received 3 Sept 201443 Repton Avenue Romford RM2 5LT
Received 23 Jan 2015179 Moor Lane Cranham Upminster Essex RM14 1HN
Received 11 Jan 201912 The Witherings Hornchurch RM11 2RA
Received 2 Dec 20186 Ash Close Romford RM5 2AH
Received 21 May 201552 MORECAMBE CLOSE HORNCHURCH RM12 5LU
Received 7 Jun 201947 Junction Road ROMFORD RM1 3QR
Received 14 Oct 20175 Gray Gardens Rainham RM13 7NH
Received 24 Apr 201820 The Drive Romford RM5 3TR
Received 2 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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