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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Phase 3A Former Harold Wood Hospital Gubbins Lane London RM3 0BE
Received 27 Aug 2014The Convent Sacred Heart of Mary 64 St Mary's Lane Upminster RM14 2QR
Received 30 Oct 201525 Ravenswood Close Romford RM5 2UD
Received 24 Nov 20221 Billet Lane Hornchurch RM11 1TS
Received 24 Nov 20252 Kings Gardens Upminster RM14 1LA
Received 7 Mar 201752 Hall Lane Upminster RM14 1AG
Received 29 Dec 2018132 Rush Green Road Romford RM7 0QA
Received 1 Jul 20165A KINGSMEAD AVENUE ROMFORD RM1 2BT
Received 11 Dec 2024Upweys Fen Lane North Ockendon RM14 3PR
Received 23 Dec 201658 St Lawrence Road Upminster RM14 2UW
Received 20 Oct 202537 Erith Crescent Collier Row Romford RM5 3JP
Received 15 Feb 2017The Bungalow, 15 Berwick Pond Close Rainham RM13 9QP
Received 16 Jul 2024218 Lodge Lane ROMFORD RM5 2EU
Received 20 Feb 201741 Salisbury Road Hornchurch RM12 5TP
Received 13 May 201633 Park Drive Upminster RM14 3AL
Received 2 Sept 2019194-204 Main Road Romford RM2 5HA
Received 13 Apr 201625 Collier Row Lane Romford RM5 3BL
Received 28 Nov 202453 Spenser Crescent Upminster Essex RM14 1AW
Received 31 Jul 2019146 Cranham Gardens Upminster RM14 1JT
Received 30 Nov 2022100 Petersfield Avenue Romford RM3 9PH
Received 30 Sept 20151 Griggs Gardens HORNCHURCH RM12 6SZ
Received 19 Nov 2017Premier Automotive Parts Unit 5 Jutsums Lane ROMFORD RM7 0EE
Received 23 Mar 201760A South End Road South Hornchurch RM13 7XJ
Received 2 May 201745 Grey Towers Avenue Hornchurch RM11 1JF
Received 3 Mar 2016Records 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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