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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Beechwood Gardens Rainham RM13 9HU
Received 31 Jul 201914 Ives Gardens Romford RM1 3QX
Received 6 Aug 20199 Barnstaple Road Romford RM3 7SS
Received 7 Oct 2018Harold Wood Hospital Romford RM3 0AR
Received 5 Feb 20256 Eastern Avenue East Romford RM1 4DR
Received 14 Aug 20184-5 Hawthorn Avenue RAINHAM RM13 9AT
Received 21 Feb 201849 Granton Avenue Upminster
Received 18 Aug 201466 SHEPHERDS HILL ROMFORD RM3 0NJ
Received 29 Jun 201760 Grosvenor Drive Hornchurch RM11 1PN
Received 4 Dec 2023355 Upminster Road North Rainham RM13 9RY
Received 25 Apr 202673 Bell House Road Romford RM7 0LL
Received 13 Aug 2014100 Douglas Road Land south of (currently comprising five garages). North Street Romford CM23 2LD
Received 8 Aug 20182 Vicarage Road Hornchurch RM12 4AT
Received 3 Jul 20181B Knightsbridge Gardens ROMFORD RM7 9AD
Received 4 Jul 2016Mardyke Farm Landfill Restoration Site Dagenham Road Rainham RM13 7SR
Received 20 May 2025Kilnbridge Waste Recycling Facility York Road Rainham RM13 7BW
Received 21 Mar 202468/70 Cranham Gardens Cranham Upminster Essex RM14 1JQ
Received 15 Aug 2016127 Betterton Road Rainham RM13 8ND
Received 29 Dec 20255 Cedric Avenue Romford RM1 4JL
Received 21 Jul 202526 Brookdale Avenue Upminster RM14 2LT
Received 28 Sept 20266 Walton Road ROMFORD RM5 2DU
Received 24 Jun 201738 ROCKINGHAM AVENUE HORNCHURCH RM11 1HH
Received 23 Dec 2024Howards Farm, Tomkyns Lane Upminster RM14 1TP
Received 1 Jul 20243 Acacia Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 1HS
Received 11 May 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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