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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
52 Mount Pleasant Road Romford RM5 3YL
Received 1 Dec 202220 West Road Rush Green Romford RM7 0QS
Received 24 Jul 201915 Parkland Avenue Romford RM1 4EL
Received 10 Jun 201976 Norwood Avenue Romford RM7 0QJ
Received 28 Mar 202318 Station Road (Natwest) Upminster RM14 2UD
Received 17 Oct 201423 Carter Drive Romford RM5 2NT
Received 26 Apr 2022CEME Campus Marsh Way Rainham RM13 8EU
Received 9 Jan 20234 Chelmsford Drive Upminster RM14 2PB
Received 28 Apr 2015138 LYNDHURST DRIVE HORNCHURCH RM11 1JZ
Received 14 Apr 2023157 Chase Cross Road ROMFORD RM5 3YR
Received 31 Mar 201745 Rutland Drive Hornchurch Essex RM11 3EW
Received 27 May 2016189 ST MARYS LANE UPMINSTER RM14 3BU
Received 30 Apr 202463 Nelmes Crescent Hornchurch RM11 2PR
Received 21 May 201821 The Fairway Upminster RM14 1BS
Received 25 Aug 202566 Elmhurst Drive Hornchurch RM11 1PF
Received 3 May 202397 DORKING ROAD ROMFORD RM3 9YU
Received 29 May 2018Havering College Ardleigh Green Road Hornchurch
Received 7 Aug 200025 Gubbins Lane Harold Wood RM3 0QS
Received 3 May 20166 Elm Parade St Nicholas Avenue Elm park Hornchurch RM12 4RH
Received 28 Oct 20167 Penzance Road Romford RM3 9NR
Received 25 Oct 2024327 Crow Lane Romford RM7 0HH
Received 15 Aug 2019Land at Rom Valley Way (formerly Romford Ice Rink) Romford
Received 1 Jul 202624 Jubilee Avenue Romford RM7 9LS
Received 28 Feb 201813 Lichfield Terrace Upminster RM14 3JT
Received 24 Jul 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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