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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Havendale Orange Tree Hill Havering-Atte-Bower
Received 18 May 201715 Park Crescent Romford
Received 28 Sept 2016339 Brentwood Road Romford RM2 5TH
Received 5 Oct 2018307 Front Lane Upminster RM14 1LH
Received 6 Nov 202536 Park Drive Romford RM1 4LH
Received 31 Mar 201541 Bosworth Crescent ROMFORD RM3 8JZ
Received 27 Feb 201816 Lombard Court Poplar Street ROMFORD RM7 7EU
Received 15 Nov 20162 Fontayne Avenue Rainham RM13 7TH
Received 16 Sept 201521 Lawrence Road Romford RM2 5SS
Received 16 Jun 2026222 High Street Hornchurch RM12 6QP
Received 25 Sept 20254 HUNTSMANS DRIVE UPMINSTER RM14 3YU
Received 13 Oct 20236 Chase Cross Road ROMFORD RM5 3PR
Received 15 Dec 2016113-117 South Street Romford RM1 1NX
Received 17 May 201936 Acacia Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4EN
Received 22 Feb 202379 Primrose Glen Hornchurch RM11 2NL
Received 7 Jul 202313 Lichfield Terrace Upminster RM14 3JT
Received 22 Dec 2015270 Hornchurch Road (Rear of) Hornchurch RM11 1PZ
Received 18 May 201510 St Matthews Close RAINHAM RM13 7DX
Received 27 Feb 201868 Parkland Avenue Upminster RM14 2EU
Received 22 Jul 20198 Edmund Road Rainham RM13 8LS
Received 27 Jan 202379 CORBETS TEY ROAD UPMINSTER RM14 2AJ
Received 19 Oct 20238-8A The Brewery Walk Romford RM1 1AU
Received 11 Sept 20261A Paternoster Row Noak Hill ROMFORD RM4 1LA
Received 16 Aug 20174A Freeman Way Emerson Park HORNCHURCH RM11 3PH
Received 17 Dec 2017Records 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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