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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
18 Ainsley Avenue Romford
Received 27 Jan 201467 Alma Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6SS
Received 23 Feb 2026St Andrews Church 222 High Street Hornchurch RM12 6QP
Received 19 Jan 2018Paternoster House Ivy Lodge Farm Nags Head Lane Upminster RM14 1TS
Received 6 Jun 2016Beam Park Former Ford Assembly Plant Site New Road (A1306) Rainham
Received 10 Mar 2018Colchester Road (The Plough) Romford RM3 8AA
Received 20 Feb 201518 Troopers Drive Romford RM3 9DE
Received 29 Nov 201660 Slewins Lane Hornchurch RM11 2BY
Received 19 Jun 201843 Wingletye Lane Hornchurch RM11 3SU
Received 19 Jun 201522 Castellan Avenue Romford RM2 6EJ
Received 14 Jul 201413 Pretoria Road Romford RM7 7AU
Received 5 Dec 202356 St Leonards Way Hornchurch RM11 1FR
Received 24 Oct 202412 Spingate Close Hornchurch RM12 6SW
Received 11 Feb 20168 Beech Avenue Upminster RM14 2HN
Received 5 Jul 201668 Parkland Avenue Upminster RM14 2EU
Received 26 Oct 2015Land bounded by New Zealand Way Queenstown Gardens and Gisb Rainham RM13 8JT
Received 27 Jun 2018Land bound by Chippenham Road, Kings Lynn Drive, Darftield W Romford RM3 8HX
Received 13 Apr 2026134 Stanley Avenue ROMFORD RM2 5DA
Received 25 Nov 201649 Langdale Gardens Hornchurch
Received 12 Feb 201910 Mungo Park Road RAINHAM RM13 7PA
Received 26 Oct 2017Marine Cottage, 1 Wennington Road Rainham RM13 9DY
Received 4 Aug 20232 Farnes Drive Romford RM2 6NS
Received 25 May 20173 Nelmes Close Hornchurch RM11 2QA
Received 3 Aug 20188 Pett Close HORNCHURCH RM11 1FF
Received 26 Sept 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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