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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Vaughan Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6SL
Received 26 Feb 2015154 SOUTH END ROAD RAINHAM RM13 7XR
Received 13 Sept 202360 HALESWORTH ROAD ROMFORD RM3 8QB
Received 12 Dec 2023Havering Sixth Form College Wingletye Lane Hornchurch RM11 3TB
Received 5 Jun 2019White Cottage, 29 Woodlands Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2QT
Received 27 Feb 20233 Billet Lane Hornchurch RM11 1TS
Received 24 Jul 2015Erraid, Lambs Lane North Rainham RM13 9XT
Received 6 Nov 202314 Dalewood Close HORNCHURCH RM11 3PJ
Received 7 Apr 201475 Hacton Drive Hornchurch RM12 6DL
Received 31 Oct 2018184 North Street Romford RM1 1DR
Received 2 Oct 2017O/S 5 South Street Romford RM1 1NJ
Received 9 Jan 201761 Hubert Road RAINHAM RM13 8AD
Received 9 Oct 20172 Abbots Close Rainham
Received 17 Feb 201444 Melstock Avenue Upminster RM14 3UL
Received 8 Jan 2016225 Ardleigh Green Road Hornchurch RM11 2ST
Received 5 Apr 201671 Birkbeck Road Romford RM7 0QR
Received 1 Sept 2024135 Upper Rainham Road HORNCHURCH RM12 4ES
Received 20 Feb 201754 Crossways Romford RM2 6AL
Received 11 Dec 2023221 and 223 Upminster Road South (Land Adj) Rainham RM13 9BB
Received 26 Mar 2015163 North Street Romford RM1 1ED
Received 26 Sept 2016140 Station Lane Hornchurch RM12 6LU
Received 29 Mar 2017115 Pretoria Road Romford RM7 7AX
Received 9 Dec 202545 Redriff Road ROMFORD RM7 8HD
Received 18 Sept 201712 Carfax Road Hornchurch RM12 4BA
Received 24 Aug 2023Records 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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