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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Little Gaynes Gardens Upminster RM14 2JL
Received 10 Oct 202444 Palm Road Romford RM7 7AR
Received 28 Sept 2026217 High Street Hornchurch RM11 3XT
Received 19 Dec 202336 Wallenger Avenue Gidea Park Romford Essex RM2 6ER
Received 22 Apr 2015McDonald's Restaurant Gallows Corner Bryant Avenue ROMFORD RM3 0AP
Received 24 May 201640 Osborne Road Hornchurch RM11 1HA
Received 3 Oct 2025130 Shepherds Hill Romford RM3 0NL
Received 6 Dec 2024129 Straight Road Romford RM3 7JD
Received 10 Aug 201535 Babington Road Hornchurch RM12 4AR
Received 2 Oct 2015Existing Base Station at Salamons Way South Rainham RM13 9DH
Received 15 Dec 2016Trevonny 31 Woodlands Avenue HORNCHURCH RM11 2QT
Received 26 May 20177 Nelmes Road Hornchurch RM11 3JA
Received 17 Oct 202314 Stanwyck Gardens ROMFORD RM3 7JU
Received 30 Dec 2017Unit 39 Liberty Shopping Centre Romford RM13RL
Received 18 Sept 20184 Broadway Romford RM2 5NS
Received 11 Jun 202666 Collingwood Road Rainham RM13 8SZ
Received 29 Mar 201634 Heath Park Road Romford Rm2 5UH
Received 15 Nov 2017Unit J, Red Electric Designs Ltd Chesham Close Romford RM7 7PJ
Received 22 Oct 2025St Helens and St Giles Church Upminster Road South
Received 23 Jul 201816 Clarence Avenue Upminster RM14 2RL
Received 19 Dec 2022160 Wingletye Lane HORNCHURCH RM11 3AR
Received 16 Mar 201718 Shaftesbury Road Romford RM1 2QH
Received 21 Apr 2023117 Suttons Avenue Elm Park RM12 4LZ
Received 30 Oct 201568 Hubbards Chase Hornchurch RM11 3DD
Received 9 Sept 2022Records 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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