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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
173 South End Road Rainham RM13 7XX
Received 21 Nov 202428 Oaklands Avenue Romford RM1 4DB
Received 13 Apr 202673 Brights Avenue Rainham RM13 9NW
Received 6 Aug 202519-20 Maywin Drive Hornchurch RM11 3ST
Received 2 Jun 2017Outside 3-7 Billet Lane Hornchurch RM11 1TS
Received 22 Jul 202422 Eastern Road (Blackburn House) Romford RM1 3PJ
Received 25 Mar 2015Land to the South of Ferry Lane South including the riverside walkway and embankment
Received 4 Sept 202419 Sussex Avenue Romford RM3 0TA
Received 13 Dec 2022195 SOUTH STREET ROMFORD RM1 1QA
Received 11 Dec 202587 Park Lane Hornchurch RM11 1BH
Received 11 Dec 202558 Brooklands Gardens HORNCHURCH RM11 2AE
Received 9 Feb 2017205 Ardleigh Green Road Hornchurch RM11 2SD
Received 11 Jan 201614 Elm Grove Emerson Park
Received 21 Jan 201460 St Marys Lane UPMINSTER RM14 2QP
Received 14 Jun 201752 Mashiters Walk Romford RM1 4BX
Received 16 Dec 2018131 Elm Park Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4SN
Received 27 Nov 2024104 Parkside Avenue Romford RM1 4NH
Received 17 May 202358 Cranston Park Avenue Upminster RM14 3XH
Received 5 May 20157 Poole Road Hornchurch RM11 3AS
Received 1 Feb 20195 Ashvale Gardens Collier Row Romford Essex RM5 3QA
Received 12 Jun 201755 Gainsborough Road Rainham RM13 7DL
Received 20 Mar 202324 WINIFRED AVENUE HORNCHURCH RM12 6SU
Received 22 Jul 20198 Oxford Avenue HORNCHURCH RM11 3ES
Received 25 May 201719 Montrose Avenue Romford RM2 6RH
Received 2 Apr 2015Records 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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