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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
353 Chepstow Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6AU
Received 17 Mar 20246 Little Gardens Close Romford RM3 9FG
Received 16 Aug 2016182 Hainault Road Romford RM5 3AS
Received 2 Feb 202358 Parsonage Road Rainham RM13 9LN
Received 20 Aug 20261 Burlington Avenue Romford RM7 9JD
Received 20 Jun 20189 St Marys Lane Upminster RM14 2QU
Received 16 Jul 201514 Sedgefield Close Romford RM3 9RP
Received 19 Jun 201576-78 North Street Romford RM1 1DA
Received 30 Jun 201647 South Hall Drive Rainham RM13 9HJ
Received 25 Jan 2019Land at Priory Road Harold Hill Romford RM3 9AP
Received 23 Jan 202420 Merlin Road Romford RM5 3YA
Received 27 Jun 201920 Aspen Grove Upminster RM14 2HZ
Received 11 Apr 2019School House, Lowen Road Rainham RM13 8QR
Received 4 Jul 2024Buttermere House (R/O) Bolberry Road Collier Row Romford RM5 3DL
Received 26 May 201511 Willow Street Romford RM7 7LJ
Received 28 May 201979 Primrose Glen Hornchurch RM11 2NL
Received 27 Dec 202311 Merlin Gardens Romford RM5 3YD
Received 21 Apr 2026Keswick Avenue Car Park Keswick Avenue Hornchurch London RM11 1XR
Received 28 Nov 20251A Forest Road Romford RM7 8DU
Received 15 Jul 2024Upper Bedfords Farm Lower Bedfords Road Romford RM1 4DQ
Received 23 Dec 201628 Geoffrey Avenue ROMFORD RM3 0YH
Received 13 Apr 2017236 SOUTH END ROAD RAINHAM RM13 7XT
Received 4 Sept 202379 Cranham Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 1JN
Received 7 Nov 2016110 Hillview Avenue HORNCHURCH RM11 2DL
Received 8 Nov 2016Records 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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