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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Smithsland Road ROMFORD RM3 9FF
Received 10 Apr 20188 Berkeley Avenue Romford RM5 3TA
Received 20 Oct 20251 Wakerfield Close Hornchurch RM11 2TH
Received 9 Jul 201817 Chipperfield Close Upminster
Received 30 Dec 201457 Balgores Lane Romford RM2 5JU
Received 25 Oct 20245 Sheila Close Romford RM5 2PA
Received 5 Dec 20237 Hawthorn Avenue RAINHAM RM13 9AT
Received 13 Oct 20178 Station Square Gidea Park Romford RM2 6AT
Received 17 Jul 2019172 WENNINGTON ROAD RAINHAM RM13 9DG
Received 20 May 202519 Ferguson Avenue Romford RM2 6RD
Received 9 Apr 2018133 Upminster Court, Coach House Hall Lane Upminster RM14 1AL
Received 21 Jun 202453 Taunton Road Romford RM3 7ST
Received 14 Sept 20238 Ruskin Gardens Romford
Received 7 Nov 2014449 South End Road Hornchurch RM12 5NX
Received 20 Apr 202614 Barnsley Road Romford RM3 9LP
Received 8 Apr 20197 Cherry Tree Lane Rainham RM13 8TH
Received 20 Jul 202311 Heather Close ROMFORD RM1 4PD
Received 27 Mar 201725 Belmont Road Hornchurch RM12 4NT
Received 23 Jun 20152 Arbour Way Hornchurch Essex RM12 5BS
Received 8 Sept 201618 Willow Street Romford RM7 7LJ
Received 13 Aug 201521 Stephen Avenue Rainham RM13 7NP
Received 26 Jan 2024126 Pretoria Road Romford RM7 7BB
Received 22 Oct 201440 South Street Romford RM1 1RB
Received 3 Jul 201937-59 White Hart Lane, rear of ROMFORD RM7 8JB
Received 19 Dec 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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