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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 The Meads Upminster RM14 3YP
Received 24 Apr 202611 Heather Gardens Romford RM1 4SS
Received 8 Jul 202659 South Street Romford RM1 1NA
Received 19 Aug 201433 Rothbury Avenue Rainham RM13 9HY
Received 25 Jun 2018252 OSBORNE ROAD HORNCHURCH RM11 1HR
Received 12 Jun 202322 KEITH WAY HORNCHURCH RM11 3RJ
Received 22 May 20231A Broadway Romford RM2 5NS
Received 28 Jul 2023109 Upminster Road Hornchurch RM11 3XH
Received 3 Jul 2018Beam Park Former Ford Assembly Plant Site New Road (A1306) Rainham
Received 14 Mar 20235 Dagnam Park Close ROMFORD RM3 9YL
Received 6 Jul 20171 Christopher Close Hormchurch RM12 6RF
Received 21 Jul 2017St Georges Hospital Suttons Lane Hornchurch RM12 6RR
Received 14 Mar 20241 Birch Close Romford RM7 8ES
Received 1 May 2024140-148 Collier Row Road Romford RM5 2BD
Received 9 Jan 2023112 Squirrels Heath Road Harold Wood RM3 0LU
Received 20 Jan 201619 Mawney Road Romford RM7 7HL
Received 27 Jun 20236 Rockchase Gardens Hornchurch RM11 3NH
Received 26 Feb 2015206 Rush Green Road Romford Essex RM7 0LA
Received 10 Jun 2016168-174, 182-186 South Street Romford RM1 1TR
Received 12 Oct 20179 Rockchase Gardens Hornchurch RM11 3NH
Received 21 May 201514 Heath Drive Gidea Park Romford RM2 5QH
Received 12 Sept 2016Dees Halt 33 Woodlands Avenue HORNCHURCH RM11 2QT
Received 24 Oct 201622 Ravenscourt Drive Hornchurch RM14 6HL
Received 22 Apr 201633 Macdonald Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2NF
Received 3 Nov 2023Records 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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