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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Hood Road Rainham RM13 8AS
Received 23 Sept 202416 Hearn Road Romford RM1 2DP
Received 13 Jul 201561-63 King Edward Avenue Rainham Essex RM13 9RH
Received 12 Dec 2023187 Southend Arterial Road Hornchurch RM11 2SF
Received 4 Aug 2023Harrow Lodge House Hornchurch Road HORNCHURCH RM11 1JU
Received 28 Mar 201783 KEMPTON AVENUE HORNCHURCH RM12 6EB
Received 23 Jul 2024428 Wingletye Lane Hornchurch RM11 3DB
Received 25 Feb 201625 Edmund Road Rainham RM13 8JX
Received 26 Sept 201457 Woodfield Drive Gidea Park RM2 5DD
Received 15 Apr 2016Land to the rear of 269 and 275 Rainham Road Stanley Road North Rainham RM13 7SH
Received 17 Jun 202644 Crossways Romford RM2 6AL
Received 30 May 202514 Duxford Close Hornchurch RM12 5PS
Received 28 Jun 2016148 South Street Romford RM1 1SX
Received 27 Oct 2023Junction of Front Lane/ Moor Lane Cranham
Received 11 Aug 201542 Crossways Romford RM2 6AL
Received 25 Jan 20195 Gidea Avenue Romford RM2 5NL
Received 17 Aug 2023Bower House, Amana Trust Orange Tree Hill Havering-atte-bower Romford RM4 1PB
Received 9 Jul 202626 Milton Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4BW
Received 17 Sept 20249 Mavis Grove Hornchurch RM12 6EX
Received 3 Jul 20181 Oak Street Romford RM7 7BS
Received 16 Jul 20241 Dunton Road Romford RM1 4AH
Received 11 Sept 2015114 Sunnyside Gardens Upminster RM14 3DR
Received 13 Apr 2023Veolia Rainham Landfill, Coldharbour Lane Rainham RM13 9BJ
Received 2 Jul 202418 Freeman Way (Land Adj) Emerson Park Hornchurch RM11 3PH
Received 25 Jan 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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