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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Hawthorn Avenue Rainham RM13 9AT
Received 26 Feb 20141 Buckingham Close Hornchurch RM11 2QS
Received 7 Jul 20261 & 2 Wennington Hall Cottages New Road Rainham RM13 9EF
Received 4 Jul 2016The Fold 54A Herbert Road Hornchurch RM11 3LJ
Received 27 May 202518 Kilnwood Lane Havering-atte-Bower RM4 1PE
Received 25 Jan 2018The Co-operative food 15 Station Road Harold Wood Romford RM3 0BP
Received 3 Jun 201535 MILL PARK AVENUE HORNCHURCH RM12 6HD
Received 29 Apr 202439-45 High Street HORNCHURCH RM11 1TP
Received 3 Jul 201752 Chester Avenue Cranham Upminster RM14 3JL
Received 25 Nov 201621 Rockingham Avenue Hornchurch RM11 1HH
Received 22 Dec 2014160-162 Hornchurch Road Romford RM11 1QH
Received 29 Mar 20176 Tyne Close Upminster RM14 1QB
Received 25 Sept 20158 Abbey Wood Lane Rainham RM13 9QH
Received 20 Nov 202321 Albert Road ROMFORD RM1 2PD
Received 27 Apr 201680 Bridge Avenue Upminster Essex RM14 2LR
Received 28 Feb 2014Good Sheppard House, 343 Crow Lane Romford RM7 0HH
Received 11 Dec 202423 Brentwood Road Land rear of Brentwood Road Romford RM1 2HA
Received 28 May 201986 Betterton Road Rainham RM13 8NH
Received 11 Oct 2023129 ABBS CROSS LANE HORNCHURCH RM12 4XT
Received 14 Nov 2023The Verve Apartments 5 Mercury Gardens Romford RM1 3FD
Received 24 Sept 2018Compasses, 125 Abbs Cross Lane Hornchurch RM12 4XS
Received 27 Feb 202457 The Grove Upminster RM14 2ES
Received 24 Jul 2026Land adjacent to Park Corner Farm Park Farm Road Upminster RM14 2XU
Received 26 Nov 201891 Essex Road Romford RM7 8BB
Received 15 Apr 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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