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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Meeting Room Branfill Road RM14 2YX
Received 7 Mar 201759 Cherry Tree Lane Rainham RM13 8TR
Received 1 Jul 2024430 Havering Road Romford RM1 4DF
Received 11 Jan 202437 Broseley Gardens Romford RM3 9BB
Received 28 Mar 202323 Lime Avenue Upminster RM14 2HY
Received 6 Oct 202328 Lodge Avenue Romford RM2 5AL
Received 22 Jun 201639 Cecil Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2NA
Received 11 Dec 20182a New Zealand Way Rainham RM13 8JP
Received 12 Jan 2026125 Havering Road Romford RM1 4RD
Received 21 Oct 201766 Gooshays Drive Romford RM3 9HP
Received 15 Jun 2015376 Upminster Road North Rainham RM13 9RZ
Received 8 May 2026157 Albany Road Hornchurch RM12 4AB
Received 3 Oct 201840 Nelwyn Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2PZ
Received 11 Jul 201641 Southern Way Romford RM7 9PB
Received 13 Jun 20196 St Marys Lane North Ockendon Upminster RM14 3PA
Received 18 Jul 2019Land at Clay Tye Farm east of existing National Grid substation off B186 Upminster RM14 3PL
Received 21 Dec 2023195 Hainault Road Romford RM5 3AS
Received 26 Apr 201938 Allandale Road Hornchurch RM11 1AP
Received 20 May 2024Brickfield Cottage Broxhill Road Havering-atte-Bower Romford RM4 1QJ
Received 11 Mar 2015108 Squirrels Heath Lane Gidea Park RM11 2DZ
Received 16 May 201635 Maybrick Road Hornchurch RM11 2AY
Received 10 Apr 201716 Lawrence Road Romford RM2 5SS
Received 27 May 201523 Park End Road Romford RM1 4AX
Received 30 Sept 2018Squirrels Heath Infant School Salisbury Road Romford RM11 1NS
Received 8 Jun 2015Records 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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