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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
191 Carter Drive Romford RM5 2UR
Received 1 Aug 2023Flat 1, 101 Brentwood Road Romford RM1 2EH
Received 25 Feb 202634 Abbey Wood Lane Rainham RM13 9QJ
Received 18 Jun 20264 Reed Pond Walk Romford RM2 5PB
Received 16 Jul 2018136 Eyhurst Avenue Elm Park RM12 4NW
Received 2 Jan 201911 WARDEN AVENUE ROMFORD RM5 2SP
Received 23 Jan 201855 Sycamore Avenue Upminster RM14 2HS
Received 14 Jun 2024Little Gerpins 2 (Fishers) Berwick Pond Road Rainham RM13 9EJ
Received 2 Dec 2014St George's Hospital Suttons Lane Hornchurch RM12 6RR
Received 24 Feb 2023Upper Bedfords Farm 109 Lower Bedfords Road Romford RM1 4DQ
Received 5 Dec 20186 Cross Road, Mawneys Romford RM7 8AT
Received 19 May 202312 The Fairway Upminster Essex RM14 1BS
Received 22 Aug 201412 Tindall Close Romford RM3 0PB
Received 11 Mar 202424 Rowan Walk Hornchurch RM11 2JA
Received 16 Aug 2019Westholme, Lambs Lane North Rainham RM13 9XT
Received 6 Mar 2023307 Upminster Road North Rainham RM13 9JL
Received 18 Feb 2026Shangri-La Lambs Lane North RAINHAM RM13 9XF
Received 12 Apr 2017Chanlin Broxhill Road Havering-Atte-Bower Romford RM4 1QH
Received 17 May 201938 Erith Crescent Romford RM5 3JP
Received 23 Dec 2014226 Upminster Road South Rainham RM13 9BH
Received 19 Aug 201567 The Grove Upminster RM14 2ES
Received 18 Jun 20248 Meadowlands Hornchurch RM11 3JX
Received 27 Jan 20199 Redden Court Road ROMFORD RM3 0UR
Received 1 Aug 201760 Hawthorn Avenue Rainham RM13 9AT
Received 15 Mar 2019Records 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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