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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
45 Pettits Lane Romford RM1 4HH
Received 18 Jan 201919B Barlow Way Rainham RM13 8BT
Received 9 Jan 202648 Doncaster Way Upminster RM14 2PL
Received 25 Sept 20188 GELSTHORPE ROAD ROMFORD RM5 2NA
Received 4 Aug 202626 Pearcy Close Harold Wood
Received 4 Mar 2014307-309 St Mary's Lane Upminster RM14 3DA
Received 20 Apr 2018Unit 2, Beam Reach 5 Business Park Consul Avenue Rainham RM13 8EU
Received 21 Dec 201579 Lake Rise Romford RM1 4EF
Received 22 Feb 202410 Elm Walk Romford RM2 5NR
Received 7 Sept 201579 Laburnum Avenue Hornchurch Essex RM12 4HF
Received 13 Feb 2019Briar Road Shop Site Romford RM3 8AH
Received 20 Mar 201583 Boxmoor Road Romford RM5 2SH
Received 8 Apr 2015184 PARKSIDE AVENUE ROMFORD RM1 4NP
Received 28 Feb 20183 Elstree Close HORNCHURCH RM12 5AT
Received 24 Jul 201780 Howard Road Upminster RM14 2UU
Received 14 Apr 2015St Marys RC Church and School Hornchurch Road Hornchurch RM12 4TL
Received 28 Jul 201542 Rush Green Road Romford RM7 0PS
Received 24 Jul 20156 Cornell Way Collier Row Romford
Received 9 Oct 201446 Derby Avenue Upminster RM14 2NR
Received 20 May 201659 Parkland Avenue Upminster RM14 2EU
Received 25 Mar 20143 LYNROSS CLOSE ROMFORD RM3 0HB
Received 19 May 202317 Chelmsford Drive Upminster RM14 2PH
Received 7 Nov 2018Montrose Warley Road Upminster RM14 1TR
Received 23 Mar 202439 Thurso Close ROMFORD RM3 0YR
Received 25 Jan 2018Records 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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