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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
74 Ingrebourne Gardens Upminster RM14 1BW
Received 6 Mar 202317 Nelmes Road Hornchurch RM11 3HX
Received 1 Oct 2026West View Noak Hill Road Romford Essex RM3 7LD
Received 6 Oct 20253 Geoffrey Avenue Harold Wood Romford RM3 0YJ
Received 29 Oct 2018124 Lower Mardyke Avenue Rainham RM13 8PR
Received 10 Jun 2015Tesco Stores Ltd Airfield Way Hornchurch RM12 5AF
Received 16 Jul 2015Oglethorpe County Junior and Infant School Ashvale Gardens Upminster
Received 28 Apr 201511 Athelstan Road Romford RM3 0QB
Received 12 Aug 2019Lowen Road RAINHAM RM13 8PR
Received 1 Nov 201617 Engayne Gardens Upminster RM14 1UY
Received 14 Mar 2016Lower Meadow Fen Lane North Ockendon Upminster RM14 3PR
Received 22 Sept 201557 Wych Elm Close HORNCHURCH RM11 3AJ
Received 30 Nov 2017Phase 2B, Former Harold Wood Hospital Gubbins Lane Harold Wood Romford RM3 0BE
Received 14 Jun 201640 Burlington Avenue ROMFORD RM7 9JJ
Received 20 Jul 201661 Grosvenor Road Romford RM7 0QU
Received 21 Jul 20269 Vernon Road ROMFORD RM5 3DE
Received 19 Sept 2017319 Brentwood Road Romford RM2 5SX
Received 22 Nov 2017Avenue Industrial Estate, Avenue Works Unit 16, Southend Art Hornchurch RM3 0BY
Received 24 Apr 202311 Ashburnham Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 1XA
Received 30 Nov 2017110 Deyncourt Gardens Upminster RM14 1DQ
Received 10 Oct 2022332 Crow Lane Romford
Received 7 Mar 201427 Farm Road Rainham RM13 9JU
Received 11 Dec 2023Roneo Wine 22 Roneo Corner Hornchurch RM12 4TN
Received 15 Jun 2018St Edwards Court London Road Romford RM7 9QD
Received 25 Jun 2018Records 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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