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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Wrexham Road and 83 Preston Road Romford RM3 7YX
Received 8 May 2015Land at Rom Valley Way (formerly Romford Ice Rink) Rom Valley Way Romford
Received 21 Apr 202629 Percy Road Romford RM7 8QX
Received 23 Jan 201914 VERNON ROAD ROMFORD RM5 3DF
Received 15 Apr 202684-88 High Street Hornchurch RM12 4UH
Received 3 Dec 20258 Latham Place Upminster RM14 1DU
Received 23 Jan 201927 Little Gaynes Lane Upminster RM14 2JJ
Received 19 Feb 2019154 SOUTH END ROAD RAINHAM RM13 7XR
Received 22 Jan 20246 Poole Road Emerson Park Hornchurch Essex RM11 3AS
Received 17 May 2016Martindale Pharmaceuticals Bampton Road Romford RM3 8UG
Received 20 Mar 202416 Elm Avenue Upminster RM14 2AY
Received 5 Apr 20235 LEASWAY UPMINSTER RM14 3AJ
Received 15 Dec 2025129 Eyhurst Avenue Elm Park RM12 4NN
Received 24 Oct 201619 St Albans Avenue Upminster RM14 3JR
Received 6 Jun 201920 The Drive Harold Wood Romford RM3 0DU
Received 5 Mar 202413 Rochester Road Hornchurch RM12 5AJ
Received 26 Oct 201537 David Drive Romford RM3 0YA
Received 30 Aug 202333 Coltishall Road Hornchurch RM12 6NY
Received 18 Mar 20168 Bowden Drive Hornchurch RM11 3UP
Received 27 Mar 2017Brook Farm St Mary's Lane North Ockendon UPMINSTER RM14 3PA
Received 6 Mar 2017Romford MDU Waterloo Road Romford
Received 20 Aug 2013103 Wennington Road Rainham RM13 9TH
Received 28 Feb 2024Oldchurch Hospital Site Oldchurch Road Romford
Received 17 Nov 2016Land at Rom Valley Way (formerly Romford Ice Rink) Rom Valley Way Romford
Received 7 Apr 2026Records 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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