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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit 1 Blackwater close Fairview industrial Park Rainham RM13 8UA
Received 2 Feb 201712C Salamons Way Rainham RM13 9UL
Received 23 May 202324 Hayes Drive Rainham RM13 7EL
Received 10 Aug 202374 & 76 Elm Park Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4SW
Received 3 Feb 20235A Laburnham Gardens Upminster RM14 1HU
Received 10 Sept 2025Landseer Close Hornchurch Essex RM11 1FJ
Received 7 Dec 201513 Swindon Lane Romford RM3 9RJ
Received 2 Aug 2023Bower House Orange Tree Hill Havering-atte-Bower ROMFORD RM4 1PB
Received 1 Sept 201767 Mildmay Road Romford RM7 7DA
Received 10 Jul 20181 Hood Road Rainham RM13 8AS
Received 20 Oct 201760 Sheringham Avenue Romford RM7 9DR
Received 2 Jun 201721 Station Road Upminster RM14 2SS
Received 4 Dec 20144 Torrance Close Hornchurch RM11 1JT
Received 19 Oct 202232 Nelmes Way Hornchurch RM11 2QZ
Received 9 Feb 20262 Tempest Way Rainham RM13 7PX
Received 27 Feb 20192 Rowan Walk Hornchurch RM11 2JA
Received 28 Jul 201620 Great Nelmes Chase Hornchurch RM11 2PS
Received 5 Feb 201527 Glebe Way HORNCHURCH RM11 3RR
Received 12 Sept 201669 St Lawrence road Upminster RM14 2XA
Received 9 Mar 202621 Sussex Avenue Harold Wood Romford RM3 0TA
Received 5 Oct 2018159 St Andrews Avenue Hornchurch RM12 5ED
Received 25 Oct 202234 Westland Avenue Hornchurch RM11 3SB
Received 12 Apr 2024101 Benhurst Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4QW
Received 14 Oct 201552 Woodlands Road (land adjacent) Harold Wood Romford RM3 0QX
Received 18 Feb 2019Records 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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