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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
77 Dominion Drive Romford RM5 2QS
Received 11 Nov 20149 Bretons Cottages, Rainham Road Rainham RM13 7LL
Received 26 Nov 202471 Bell House Road Romford RM7 0LL
Received 21 Jun 2016Land Adj to 22-24 Chalforde Gardens Romford RM2 6BU
Received 25 Mar 2026244 South Street ROMFORD RM1 2AD
Received 6 Jun 201739 Kershaw Close HORNCHURCH RM11 1SW
Received 24 Jul 201769 Birkbeck Road ROMFORD RM7 0QR
Received 21 Sept 20178 Wells Gardens (Land Adj) Rainham RM13 7LU
Received 8 Jun 201516 CAVENHAM GARDENS HORNCHURCH RM11 2AU
Received 24 May 201713 Sunnycroft Gardens Upminster RM14 1HP
Received 30 Mar 2023119 Belgrave Avenue ROMFORD RM2 6PS
Received 3 Jan 201860 Stanley Road Hornchurch RM12 4JN
Received 28 May 2024Excel House Hornminster Glen Hornchurch RM11 3XL
Received 18 Oct 201737 Springfield Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 3EH
Received 18 Jul 20161 Elm Road Romford RM7 8HH
Received 18 Dec 202460-64 Upminster Road South Rainham RM13 9AA
Received 5 Feb 201865 Peterborough Avenue Upminster RM14 3LL
Received 16 Feb 2024Maybank Avenue opposite Genotin Mews Elm Park Hornchurch RM12 5SH
Received 27 Apr 2016Hacton Lane Upminster RM14 2NX
Received 18 Mar 2016Bower House (Amana Trust) Orange Tree Hill Havering-atte-Bower Romford RM4 1PB
Received 12 Dec 2014226 Elm Park Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4PQ
Received 12 Jul 2023159 Collier Row Lane Romford RM5 3ED
Received 5 Jun 2026Land adjacent to 3 Lamson Road RAINHAM RM13 9YY
Received 4 May 2016180 Hall Lane Upminster RM14 1AT
Received 16 Aug 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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