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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2B Grosvenor Gardens Upminster RM14 1DJ
Received 18 Jan 20197 STEWART AVENUE UPMINSTER RM14 2AE
Received 25 Jul 2023Garage site at Sackville Crescent Romford RM3
Received 3 Nov 2015102 Squirrels Heath Lane HORNCHURCH RM11 2DZ
Received 12 Sept 201612 Stafford Industrial Estate Hillman Close Hornchurch RM11 2SJ
Received 15 Mar 202362 Devonshire Road Hornchurch RM12 4LQ
Received 25 Aug 201547 DAWES AVENUE HORNCHURCH RM12 6AJ
Received 28 Sept 20261 Goring Close Collier Row RM5 3JD
Received 30 Apr 201587 Wood Lane Elm Park RM12 5JB
Received 21 Oct 201649 Kershaw Close Hornchurch RM11 1SW
Received 27 May 201517 Hall Lane UPMINSTER RM14 1AF
Received 23 Aug 201761 Heath Park Road Romford RM2 5UL
Received 14 Jan 2019Neopost House South Street Romford RM1 2AR
Received 18 Jan 2019Gidea Park Station Station Road Romford RM2 6BX
Received 30 Apr 20152 Ainsley Avenue Romford RM7 9HU
Received 6 Oct 201540 Meadow Way Upminster RM14 3AD
Received 17 Sept 20199 Walden Avenue Rainham RM13 8EA
Received 27 Aug 2018Little Maple House 85 Eastern Avenue East Romford Essex RM1 4SH
Received 2 Aug 201920 Dymoke Road Hornchurch RM11 1AA
Received 11 Oct 2023264 Mungo Park Road Rainham RM13 7PU
Received 6 Jan 2023113 Abbs Cross Lane Hornchurch RM12 4XP
Received 24 Sept 20159 Barton Road Hornchurch RM12 4AA
Received 15 Sept 2025101 - 105 Balgores Lane Ground floor ROMFORD RM2 6BT
Received 30 Sept 20191a Front Lane Cranham Upminster RM14 3YD
Received 5 Dec 2014Records 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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