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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
KFC Straight Road Romford RM3 8AA
Received 3 Jul 202622 Engayne Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 1UZ
Received 1 Dec 2017Hexagon House 5 Mercury Gardens ROMFORD RM1 3EL
Received 6 Sept 201640 Vicarage Road Hornchurch RM12 4AT
Received 21 Jul 202530 Harrow Crescent Romford RM3 7AB
Received 5 Oct 2015Upper Bedfords Farm Lower Bedfords Road Romford RM1 4DQ
Received 15 May 201913 Parsonage Road Rainham RM13 9LW
Received 22 Mar 201662 Grey Towers Avenue Hornchurch RM11 1JD
Received 24 Oct 201618 Station Road, Natwest Upminster RM14 2UD
Received 3 Dec 2018Wyema North Road Havering-atte-Bower RM4 1PX
Received 7 Sept 201757 Westmoreland Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2EF
Received 23 Sept 201923 Squirrels Heath Avenue Gidea Park Romford RM2 6AD
Received 2 Mar 20184 Western Avenue Romford RM2 6EH
Received 28 Apr 2019Flat 3, Spire View Court, 35 Upminster Road Hornchurch RM11 3XA
Received 21 Sept 20265 Cranham Hall Mews Off the Chase Upminster RM14 3DB
Received 5 Feb 20166 Curtis Road HORNCHURCH RM11 3NP
Received 30 Jan 2017119 MOOR LANE UPMINSTER RM14 1HF
Received 12 Mar 202416 Newmarket Way Hornchurch RM12 6DS
Received 1 Feb 20231a Kings Cottages Bates Road Harold Wood Romford RM3 0JS
Received 4 Mar 201459 Mowbrays Road Romford RM5 3EL
Received 20 Oct 201438 Hacton lane Hornchurch RM12 6PB
Received 29 May 2018469 South End Road Hornchurch RM12 5NX
Received 21 Feb 2017287 Hornchurch Road Hornchurch RM12 4TQ
Received 23 Jun 201738 Westmoreland Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2EE
Received 9 Oct 2018Records 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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