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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lucas Court Southend Arterial Road Hornchurch RM2 6PF
Received 9 Aug 201627 Drummond Road Romford RM7 7EJ
Received 7 Apr 2016194 Hall Lane Upminster
Received 13 Oct 201414 Linden Street (Land Adj) Romford RM7 7HB
Received 2 Oct 201545 Minster Way Hornchurch Essex RM11 3TD
Received 16 Mar 201556 Park Drive Upminster RM14 3AR
Received 16 Feb 202638 Laburnham Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 1HX
Received 1 Mar 20179 Birch Road Romford Essex RM7 8ER
Received 27 Feb 201911 Nelwyn Avenue Emerson Park Hornchurch
Received 18 Sept 201433 Ashmour Gardens Romford RM1 4RH
Received 3 Jul 2015122A Bruce Avenue Hornchurch
Received 1 Sept 201424 Horndon Road Collier Row RM5 3EP
Received 3 May 201627 Meadway Romford RM2 5NU
Received 24 Nov 2022123 Hall Lane Upminster RM14 1AU
Received 6 May 2026Unit 26 BeamReach 8C FerryLane South Rainham RM13
Received 7 Nov 201412 Lulworth Drive Romford RM5 2UA
Received 28 Jun 20182A Engayne Gardens Upminster RM14 1UZ
Received 4 Dec 201889 Main Road ROMFORD RM2 5EL
Received 18 Aug 2017251 South Street Romford RM1 2BE
Received 25 Sept 201487 Arlington Gardens Romford RM3 0EB
Received 15 Mar 202310 Heaton Close Romford RM3 7HP
Received 3 Oct 202556 Courtenay Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 1DD
Received 25 May 20177 Fleming Gardens Romford RM3 0WA
Received 6 Jun 202447 Dudley Road RM3 8LH
Received 24 Apr 2017Records 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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