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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35 Hood Road RM138AS
Received 10 Oct 201773 Laburnum Walk Hornchurch RM12 5RJ
Received 15 Mar 20161-21 Buckingham Close HORNCHURCH RM11 2QS
Received 15 Apr 201645 Nelson Road RAINHAM RM13 8AU
Received 24 Oct 20161 Blakeborough Drive Harold Wood Romford RM3 0WS
Received 11 Sept 2015Corbets Tey School Harwood Hall Lane Upminster RM14 2YQ
Received 12 Dec 20239 Barton Road Hornchurch RM12 4AA
Received 4 Nov 202247 Betterton Road Rainham RM13 8NB
Received 11 Jan 20241 The Crescent Upminster RM14 1JY
Received 31 Oct 202517 Station Road, Harold Wood Romford RM3 0BP
Received 27 Jan 202637 Woodhall Crescent Hornchurch RM11 3NW
Received 1 Aug 20169 St Mary's Lane Upminster RM14 2QU
Received 2 May 2018140 Bush Elms Road Hornchurch RM11 1LT
Received 24 Apr 201542 Homeway Romford RM3 0HD
Received 1 Dec 202325 Glebe Road Rainham RM13 9LH
Received 31 Jul 2025266 Lodge Lane Romford
Received 27 Sept 2010Wallenger Tudor Cottage 10 Wallenger Avenue Romford RM2 6ER
Received 22 Jul 2019Phase 2A, Former Harold Wood Hospital Gubbins Lane RM3 0BE
Received 14 Jun 2016Knightswood Place (formerly Dovers Corner Industrial Estate) New Road, Rainham RM13 8QT
Received 12 Apr 202364 Slewins Lane HORNCHURCH RM11 2BY
Received 28 Sept 201613 MELTON GARDENS ROMFORD RM1 2AS
Received 1 Jun 2023Town Hall, Havering LBC Main Road Romford RM1 3BD
Received 14 Nov 202530 Maclennan Avenue Rainham RM13 9SS
Received 24 Aug 2026Meadow Farm Eastern Avenue Romford RM3 7NR
Received 30 Nov 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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