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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Moat Barn Church Lane North Ockendon Upminster RM14 3QH
Received 30 Jan 201715 Dover Close Romford RM5 3AX
Received 29 Aug 2025V and P Motors 166 Upminster Road Hornchurch RM14 2RB
Received 11 May 20178 Arterial Avenue Rainham RM13 9NP
Received 8 Oct 202529-31 Malvern Road Hornchurch RM11 1BG
Received 18 Apr 2017193 Hainault Road Romford RM5 3AS
Received 11 Apr 202415 Rushmere Avenue Upminster RM14 3AW
Received 4 Jun 201517 Upper Rainham Road Hornchurch
Received 26 Sept 201427 Cherry Tree Lane RAINHAM RM13 8TH
Received 7 Dec 201648 Ingrebourne Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 1BN
Received 16 Jun 201639 Berkeley Drive Hornchurch RM11 3PZ
Received 8 Mar 20237 Hawkhurst Gardens Romford RM5 3LT
Received 23 Sept 2025Dalewood Broxhill Road Romford RM4 1QH
Received 30 Mar 20175 High Elms Upminster RM14 1XT
Received 11 May 201635 Lancing Road Romford RM3 8QJ
Received 3 Jul 2026St Georges Hospital Suttons Lane Hornchurch RM12 6RS
Received 9 Mar 201545 Nelson Road Rainham RM13 8AU
Received 12 Jul 2016102 Cambridge Avenue Romford RM2 6RA
Received 12 Nov 2024Amana Trust Bower House Orange Tree Hill Havering-atte-Bower ROMFORD RM4 1PB
Received 7 Apr 2017Land to rear of Nos 230-236 Hornchurch Road Hornchurch Essex RM11 1QB
Received 11 Jul 201916 Ayr Way Romford RM1 4UB
Received 26 Jan 2026178 Suttons Lane Hornchurch RM12 6RU
Received 19 Mar 20264 Waldegrave Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 1UR
Received 24 Nov 2017Orchard Village Lowen Road Rainham RM13 8PR
Received 17 May 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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