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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
85 Dee Way Rise Park Romford Essex RM1 4UU
Received 13 May 2016208 Wennington Road Rainham RM13 9UU
Received 14 Aug 20259 Barnstaple Road ROMFORD RM3 7SS
Received 23 Jun 201729 Eddy Close Romford RM7 9HR
Received 14 Oct 202518 Ravenscourt Drive Hornchurch RM12 6HL
Received 1 Nov 2016Abbeyfield House Balgores Lane Romford RM2 5JU
Received 13 Apr 2018590 Upper Brentwood Road Romford RM2 6HU
Received 24 Apr 202433 Marshalls Drive Romford RM1 4JR
Received 17 Mar 202372 Stafford Avenue Hornchurch Essex RM11 2ES
Received 30 Jan 201424 Ashvale Gardens Romford RM5 3QA
Received 13 Sept 2019Upminster Cricket Club Upminster Park Corbets Tey Road UPMINSTER RM14 2AJ
Received 1 Mar 2018Harold Wood Junior Mixed And Infants School Recreation Avenue Harold Wood Romford RM3 0TH
Received 15 May 201913B Medora Road ROMFORD RM7 7EP
Received 11 Mar 201869 Bruce Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4JF
Received 2 Mar 202628 Patricia Drive HORNCHURCH RM11 3RU
Received 21 Mar 201761 HERON WAY UPMINSTER RM14 1EW
Received 2 Aug 2019Service House, 37-39 Manor Road Romford RM1 2TL
Received 27 Aug 2014Howards Farm, Tomkyns Lane Upminster RM14 1TP
Received 1 Jul 202439-45 High Street Hornchurch RM11 1TP
Received 3 Jul 201995 Coltsfoot Path Romford RM3 8BH
Received 9 Jul 2026Land rear of 44 Parkstone Avenue accessed from Peerage way Hornchurch RM11 3LW
Received 17 Feb 2026Berry Lodge St Marys Lane North Ockendon Upminster RM14 3PH
Received 18 Nov 20228 OSWALD CLOSE HORNCHURCH RM12 5DF
Received 7 Jul 201772 Cedar Road Romford RM7 7JU
Received 4 Mar 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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