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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lexington Way Garage Block Lexington Way UPMINSTER RM14 1NW
Received 18 Aug 201751 Chippenham Road Harold Hill RM3 8HJ
Received 29 Apr 201521 Glanville Drive Hornchurch RM11 3SY
Received 19 Jun 2023145 Main Road Romford RM2 6LS
Received 21 Apr 20231 Pontypool Walk Romford RM3 8YD
Received 23 Jan 201545 Whybridge Close Rainham RM13 8BB
Received 9 Mar 20236 East Close Rainham RM13 9AJ
Received 22 Sept 202227 Easter Industrial Park, Ferry Lane Rainham RM13 9BP
Received 7 Mar 2024427 Upminster Road North Rainham RM13 9SA
Received 6 Mar 202630 Repton Gardens Romford RM2 5LS
Received 26 May 20159 Balgores Square Romford RM2 6AU
Received 26 Apr 201662 Main Road Gidea Park Romford Essex RM1 3DB
Received 11 Jul 2016330 Abbs Cross Lane adj Hornchurch
Received 29 Nov 201768 Brookdale Avenue Upminster RM14 2LT
Received 6 Nov 2015highway land Main Road adj 2 Lake Rise Gidea Park Romford
Received 17 Aug 201616 Mendip Road Hornchurch RM11 1LL
Received 22 Jan 20181 Sycamore Grove Romford RM2 5GF
Received 10 Oct 2025115 Lambs Lane South Rainham Havering RM13 9XJ
Received 5 Sept 20252b Havering Drive Romford RM1 4BB
Received 13 Jun 2016142 Heaton Avenue Romford RM3 7HD
Received 20 Apr 202633 Ashleigh Gardens Upminster RM14 3AX
Received 1 May 201821 Ramsden Drive Romford RM5 2NL
Received 13 Dec 201731 Montgomery Crescent Romford RM3 2UH
Received 18 May 201571 Ferguson Avenue ROMFORD RM2 6RP
Received 17 Oct 2016Records 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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