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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
63 Kingswood Lodge Main Road Romford RM2 5EH
Received 27 Mar 20172 Mygrove Close Rainham RM13 9QS
Received 11 Aug 202323-55 North Street Romford RM1 1BJ
Received 25 Nov 202410 Bridport Avenue Romford RM7 9HP
Received 11 Dec 201872 Rainsford Way Hornchurch RM12 4BL
Received 12 Feb 201636 Wickford Drive Romford RM3 9SH
Received 17 Mar 201638 Brentwood Road Romford Essex RM1 2EX
Received 17 Jun 201698 Kenilworth Gardens Hornchurch RM12 4SF
Received 16 Jan 201569 Newtons Close RAINHAM RM13 7AX
Received 14 Jul 2016144 South Street Romford RM1 1SX
Received 19 Feb 201916 Avenue Road Romford RM3 0SU
Received 13 Jun 201625 Aldwych Close Hornchurch RM12 4JX
Received 3 Jul 201840 Harrow Drive Hornchurch RM11 1NU
Received 22 Oct 201821 Brookside Hornchurch RM11 2RR
Received 18 Dec 202519-21 Eastern Road Romford
Received 3 Mar 201163 Deyncourt Gardens Upminster RM14 1DQ
Received 9 Jan 2017Upminster Primary School, St Marys Lane Upminster RM14 3BS
Received 12 Sept 202341 Gubbins Lane Romford RM3 0QA
Received 18 May 2026Woodville Works Church Road Romford RM4 1LD
Received 27 Feb 201414 Erroll Road Gidea Park RM1 3DJ
Received 31 Mar 201589 New Road Rainham RM13 8ET
Received 5 Aug 2019148 Devonshire Road Hornchurch RM12 4LW
Received 9 Jan 202355 Brackendale Gardens Upminster RM14 3UU
Received 9 Feb 201633 Spencer Road Rainham RM13 8HD
Received 15 Dec 2016Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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