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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Park Rise Sunrise Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4YT
Received 4 Sept 2023118 Sunnings Lane Upminster RM14 2DQ
Received 15 May 202419 Milton Avenue Hornchurch
Received 3 Sept 2014Flat 2 84 Essex Road Romford RM7 8AX
Received 1 Dec 20175 & 7 Nelmes Way Hornchurch RM11 2QY
Received 16 Jan 202337 Redriff Road Romford RM7 8HD
Received 5 Apr 201635 Penerley Road Rainham RM13 9HF
Received 19 Oct 2015Havering College Tring Gardens Harold Hill RM3 9ES
Received 10 Jan 201949 Gordon Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4EA
Received 14 Apr 201934 Lake Rise Romford RM1 4DY
Received 11 Jan 2019Upper Bedfords Farm 109 Lower Bedfords Road Romford RM1 4DQ
Received 9 Aug 2019108 Main Road Romford RM2 5JB
Received 14 Apr 2016Esso Collier Row Service Station Collier Row Road Romford RM5 2BB
Received 28 Jun 201961 Hubert Road RAINHAM RM13 8AD
Received 6 Mar 201819 Gorseway ROMFORD RM7 0RP
Received 19 Apr 201661-63 King Edward Avenue Rainham Essex RM13 9RH
Received 30 Jul 202451 Garry Way Romford RM1 4YT
Received 4 Feb 201644 Berwick Road Rainham RM13 9QL
Received 11 Feb 201529-33 Victoria Road Romford RM1 2JT
Received 25 Jan 20238 Argus Close Romford RM7 8NJ
Received 15 Dec 2014Grass verge to front of 124 New Road Rainham RM13 8SH
Received 3 Mar 2023Royal Liberty School Upper Brentwood Road Romford RM2 6HJ
Received 8 Sept 20262 Roseacre Close Hornchurch RM11 3NJ
Received 18 Jul 20261-1a Chase Cross Road Collier Row Romford RM5 2ND
Received 27 Nov 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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