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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
58 Parsonage Road Rainham RM13 9LN
Received 19 Jun 202651 Mawney Road Romford
Received 8 Dec 2015105 Dagenham Road Rainham RM7 0DH
Received 12 Jan 20157A Nelmes Road Hornchurch RM11 3JA
Received 24 Aug 20269 Ernest Road Hornchurch RM11 3JE
Received 6 Nov 20151 New Hall Drive Romford
Received 12 Dec 201416 Dartfields ROMFORD RM3 8DA
Received 7 Jul 20171 STAPLEFORD GARDENS ROMFORD RM5 2JT
Received 27 May 2025Equinox Apartments 138 Station Lane Hornchurch RM12 6LU
Received 12 Nov 202528 Nelmes Crescent Hornchurch RM11 2QB
Received 13 Nov 202340 Guysfield Drive Rainham RM13 7AJ
Received 29 Mar 202352 Lodge Lane ROMFORD RM5 2EJ
Received 24 May 2016Edgewell 20 Brook Road ROMFORD RM2 5QT
Received 14 Aug 201778-80 Straight Road Romford RM3 8AA
Received 11 Mar 2015219-221 Straight Road ROMFORD RM3 7JP
Received 28 Jul 201757 Crystal Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6SJ
Received 23 Oct 2023276 Elm Park Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4PQ
Received 15 Nov 201833 Severn Drive Upminster RM14 1SW
Received 9 Jan 20194 Sydenham Close Romford RM1 4HN
Received 20 Jan 202354 Juniper Way Romford RM3 0XL
Received 6 Oct 20256 Masefield Drive Upminster RM14 1AY
Received 17 Jul 2024421 St Marys Lane Upminster RM14 3JB
Received 19 Sept 2023Collier Row Service Station Collier Row Road Romford RM5 2BB
Received 5 Feb 201540 Balgores Lane Romford RM2 5JT
Received 11 Aug 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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