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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
27 Gray Gardens Rainham RM13 7NH
Received 26 Feb 201510 Gaynes Road Upminster RM14 2YS
Received 1 Jun 20232 Park Cottages North Road Havering-atte-Bower Romford RM4 1PS
Received 22 Dec 201522 Chiltern Gardens Hornchurch RM12 4SQ
Received 27 Jul 202314 Sunnyside Gardens Upminster RM14 3DS
Received 7 Sept 2016126 Howard Road UPMINSTER RM14 2UU
Received 6 Sept 2017114 Pretoria Road Romford RM7 7BB
Received 18 Nov 202413 Prospect Road Hornchurch RM11 3TY
Received 16 Sept 201942 Rosslyn Avenue Romford RM3 0DJ
Received 2 Feb 202625 Turpin Avenue ROMFORD RM5 2PU
Received 2 Nov 2017Chesham House, Chesham Close Romford RM7 7PJ
Received 20 Sept 2023379 Elm Park Avenue HORNCHURCH RM12 4PE
Received 24 Apr 201776 THE GROVE UPMINSTER RM14 2ET
Received 29 Apr 2024Diana Princess of Wales House 8 Coleridge Road ROMFORD RM3 7BB
Received 8 Sept 20177 Judith Avenue Romford RM5 2PL
Received 29 Aug 202533 Spencer Road Rainham RM13 8HD
Received 12 Dec 2016142 Cross Road Mawneys Romford RM7 8EL
Received 19 Dec 202235 Balgores Lane Romford RM2 5JU
Received 31 May 201827 Grosvenor Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 1DL
Received 18 Sept 201796 Corbets Tey Road Upminster RM14 2BA
Received 9 Oct 2018347 Chepstow Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6AU
Received 16 Jun 2026Shanks Waste Ltd Creek Way Rainham
Received 8 Apr 2013Marks and Spencer Plc The Liberty (store & service areas) 39 South Street & via Mercury Gardens RM1 1NT
Received 17 Feb 201653 Macon Way Upminster RM14 1NX
Received 28 Dec 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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