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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
39 Dover Close Romford RM5 3AX
Received 1 Mar 2017254 Corbets Tey Road Upminster RM14 2DT
Received 26 Jun 2017Frog Lane land at Rainham
Received 15 Dec 2016Bus Shelter IFO No.16-22 (Sovereign House) Western Road RM1 3JT
Received 19 Oct 201549 Horndon Road Romford Essex RM5 3EU
Received 19 Sept 2019ONGAR WAY & RAINHAM ROAD ROMFORD SOUTH HORNCHURCH RM13 7YT
Received 6 Oct 201563 Heath Drive ROMFORD RM2 5QR
Received 9 Jun 201656 Waycross Road Upminster RM14 1NS
Received 18 Dec 202332 Mount Pleasant Road Romford RM5 3YL
Received 24 Apr 202666 Glenwood Drive Gidea Park, Romford RM2 5AS
Received 11 Aug 2014Exchange House, 180-182 St Marys Lane Upminster RM14 3BT
Received 26 Jun 2024101 Seymer Road Romford
Received 17 Nov 2014231 Cross Road Mawneys Romford RM7 8HS
Received 8 Dec 2015Phase 1B, Former Harold Wood Hospital Gubbins Lane Harold Wood RM3 0BE
Received 7 Dec 201675-81 Front Lane Upminster RM14 1XL
Received 1 Feb 202410 Ravenswood Close Collier Row Romford RM5 2UD
Received 27 May 201566 Highfield Road Romford RM5 3SA
Received 23 Sept 201539 Albany Road Hornchurch RM12 4AE
Received 12 Feb 201557 Kingston Road Romford RM1 3NB
Received 3 Mar 2016Mandelieu Upminster Essex England RM14 3AJ
Received 30 Jul 202556 Brookside Hornchurch RM11 2RL
Received 16 May 2023117 Dorset Avenue Romford RM1 4JB
Received 29 Jul 2019rear of 147 Rainham Road Rainham Essex RM13 7RB
Received 24 Jul 20188 Squirrels Heath Lane Gidea Park Romford RM2 6DS
Received 10 Aug 2026Records 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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