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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
adj 479 Upper Brentwood Road Gidea Park Romford RM2 6GL
Received 17 Oct 201835 Marshalls Drive ROMFORD RM1 4JR
Received 15 Aug 201646 Wincanton Road Romford RM3 9DH
Received 10 Oct 202586 Sunnyside Gardens Upminster RM14 3DR
Received 12 Jul 201899A Upper Rainham Road Hornchurch RM12 4EF
Received 7 May 2026Interwood Site (Block F) Stafford Avenue Hornchurch RM11 6ED
Received 16 Jul 201515 The Witherings Hornchurch RM11 2RA
Received 14 Nov 201617 Westland Avenue Hornchurch RM11 3SD
Received 28 Jun 2017210 Victoria Road Romford RM1 2NP
Received 27 Oct 202527 Erith Crescent ROMFORD RM5 3JP
Received 27 May 201611 Dominion Way Rainham RM13 8HU
Received 9 Dec 202533 Platford Green Land to the Rear of Hornchurch RM11 2TA
Received 25 Jul 201655 The Drive Romford RM5 3TP
Received 31 Oct 2016The Cottage Tomkyns Lane Tylers Common Upminster RM14 1TD
Received 11 Dec 20142 Quadrant Arcade Romford RM1 3ED
Received 28 Mar 2016244 South Street ROMFORD RM1 2AD
Received 18 Aug 2017Portman House 16-20 Victoria Road Romford RM1 2JH
Received 21 Sept 201526 Milton Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4BW
Received 31 Oct 20244 Lowshoe Lane Romford RM5 2AA
Received 23 Nov 20164 Tees Drive Romford RM3 9AJ
Received 13 Apr 201862 Eastern Road Romford RM1 3QA
Received 24 Mar 2014Horseshoe Farm North Road Havering-atte-Bower ROMFORD RM4 1QA
Received 11 Mar 201736 Westmoreland Avenue HORNCHURCH RM11 2EE
Received 16 Jan 20175 Chalforde Gardens Gidea Park Romford RM2 6BU
Received 31 Oct 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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