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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
24 Alverstoke Road ROMFORD RM3 8QR
Received 27 Apr 2017Unit 40 The Old Brickworks Industrial Estate Harold Wood Romford RM3 0JA
Received 6 Oct 2015St George's Hospital Suttons Lane Hornchurch RM12 6RR
Received 15 Dec 2022270 Elm Park Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4PQ
Received 16 Oct 202266 Central Drive Hornchurch RM12 6BA
Received 16 Mar 2016140-148 MRH Service Station Collier Row Collier Row Road ROMFORD RM5 2BB
Received 9 Mar 2017115 Church Road Romford RM3 0SH
Received 21 Jun 201833 South Street Rainham RM13 8PJ
Received 14 Nov 202455 Parsonage Road Rainham RM13 9LN
Received 19 Jul 202476 Belle Vue Road Collier Row Romford RM5 3AZ
Received 14 Nov 202294 George Street Romford RM1 2DS
Received 29 Dec 201613 Alverstoke Road Romford RM3 8QR
Received 28 Mar 2014New Road Rainham Havering RM13 9EB
Received 19 Oct 201551 Herbert Road Hornchurch RM11 3LL
Received 2 Mar 202310 Oxford Avenue Hornchurch RM11 3ES
Received 12 Oct 20235 Allenby Drive Hornchurch RM11 3SA
Received 20 Jul 201642 DERBY AVENUE UPMINSTER RM14 2NR
Received 1 Jun 202328 Woodhall Crescent Hornchurch RM11 3NW
Received 30 Aug 202356 Faircross Avenue Romford RM5 3UB
Received 30 Jul 202689 New Road Rainham RM13 8XP
Received 18 Mar 202440 Collier Row Road ROMFORD RM5 3PA
Received 19 Oct 20164 Ferndown Hornchurch RM11 3JL
Received 13 Apr 202383 Westmoreland Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2EF
Received 11 Jun 202668 Chelmsford Drive Upminster Essex RM14 2PD
Received 27 Aug 2015Records 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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