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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
146 Maybank Avenue Hornchurch RM12 5SH
Received 21 Sept 201527 Kersey Gardens Romford RM3 0ER
Received 27 Jun 2019590 Upper Brentwood Road Romford RM2 6HU
Received 11 Dec 202328 RUSHMERE AVENUE UPMINSTER RM14 3AN
Received 9 May 201828 Gordon Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4EA
Received 9 Nov 202367 Cedar Road ROMFORD RM7 7JS
Received 17 Jan 201719 HOWARD ROAD UPMINSTER RM14 2UE
Received 3 May 201719 Balgores Lane Romford RM2 5JT
Received 24 Aug 2026208 Dagnam Park Drive Romford RM3 9EB
Received 27 Mar 2026412 Brentwood Road Romford RM2 6DH
Received 21 Jun 201867 Cedar Road Romford RM7 7JS
Received 28 Feb 201799 Severn Drive Upminster RM14 1QE
Received 17 Apr 202342 Gubbins Lane Romford RM3 0PU
Received 23 Nov 2022ARUNDEL BUSINESS CENTRE, 49 STATION ROAD, HAROLD WOOD ROMFORD RM3 0BS
Received 15 Sept 2023237 Brentwood Road Romford RM1 2RL
Received 6 Jul 202356 Bell Avenue Harold Hill Romford RM3 7BX
Received 17 Feb 2015138 Balgores Lane Gidea Park Romford RM2 5JX
Received 22 Apr 2015Rear Of 213 North Street Romford RM1 4QA
Received 22 Feb 20249 Masefield Crescent ROMFORD RM3 7PH
Received 30 Nov 2016High Winds Orange Tree Hill Havering-atte-Bower ROMFORD RM4 1PB
Received 31 Aug 2016Veolia, Freightmaster Estate Coldharbour Lane Rainham RM13 9BJ
Received 9 Feb 201744 Highfield Road Romford Essex RM5 3RA
Received 21 Sept 2022144 BENHURST AVENUE HORNCHURCH RM12 4QW
Received 20 Feb 201833 Sowrey Avenue Rainham RM13 7LX
Received 30 Jan 2015Records 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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