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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 Fontayne Avenue Rainham RM13 7TH
Received 16 Sept 202449 Cecil Avenue HORNCHURCH RM11 2NA
Received 14 Aug 2017Merritt House Frazer Close Romford RM1 2DE
Received 6 Jul 202558 HERBERT ROAD HORNCHURCH RM11 3LJ
Received 26 Mar 20243 Grapevine Mews off North Street Romford RM1 4QB
Received 8 Apr 202624 Highfield Crescent Hornchurch RM12 6QB
Received 15 Feb 202319 Mawney Road Romford RM7 7HL
Received 15 Mar 20232 Rowan Walk Hornchurch RM11 2JA
Received 1 Sept 2016173 High Street (HSBC) Hornchurch RM11 3YS
Received 3 Dec 20147 Lichfield Terrace Upminster RM14 3JT
Received 18 Oct 2023Ongar Way South Hornchurch RM13 7YT
Received 4 Dec 2014(Briar Site 10E) Open Space between 13 Honeysuckle Close, 19 Tulip Close & 34 Myrtle Road Romford
Received 4 Oct 2013108 Links Avenue Romford
Received 21 Apr 2017Queens Moat House St Edwards Way Romford RM1 4DD
Received 23 Mar 20185 Winifred Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6SU
Received 19 Feb 201619 Balmoral Road Romford RM2 5XD
Received 4 Dec 201583 Bush Elms Road HORNCHURCH RM11 1LU
Received 21 Jun 2017173 Ford Lane Rainham RM13 7BA
Received 4 Sept 201916 Heather Glen ROMFORD RM1 4SR
Received 19 Apr 201787 Grenfell Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4DS
Received 4 Jun 201515 Simpson Road Rainham RM13 7LR
Received 27 Apr 201523 Grosvenor Gardens Grosvenor Lawn Tennis Club Ltd Upminster
Received 16 Apr 201342 MacDonald Avenue HORNCHURCH RM11 2NE
Received 9 Dec 201724 Merlin Road Romford RM5 3YA
Received 19 Jan 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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