Understanding planning · 13 min read
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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
19 Drummond Avenue Romford RM7 7EH
Received 27 Aug 2019143 Cherry Tree Lane Rainham RM13 8TT
Received 30 Jun 201613 Reed Pond Walk Gidea Park Romford RM2 5PJ
Received 11 Aug 2015460 SOUTH END ROAD HORNCHURCH RM12 5PA
Received 28 Sept 202643 Elmhurst Drive Hornchurch Essex RM11 1NY
Received 25 Feb 201948 Woodlands Road Harold Wood Romford RM3 0QX
Received 4 Mar 201927 ELMER GARDENS RAINHAM RM13 7BS
Received 25 May 20231 Pegelm Gardens Hornchurch RM11 3NU
Received 16 May 202423 Park Crescent Hornchurch RM11 1BJ
Received 26 Jul 2019185 High Street Hornchurch RM11 3XS
Received 8 Aug 2017140 Rainham Road Rainham RM13 7RH
Received 12 Aug 20195 Ash Close Romford
Received 15 Dec 201423 Carter Drive Romford RM5 2NT
Received 3 Sept 2026Land adjacent to 5 Magnum Close Rainham RM13 9PU
Received 12 Aug 2024107 Grenfell Avenue Hornchurch . RM12 4Ds
Received 20 Aug 2018Engayne Primary School Severn Drive Upminster RM14 1SW
Received 25 Nov 2015169 Bell Avenue Romford RM3 7BX
Received 30 May 2017128 Shepherds Hill Romford RM3 0NL
Received 6 Dec 202422 Burleigh Close Romford RM7 8BA
Received 21 Sept 201676 White Hart Lane Romford RM7 8JB
Received 1 Oct 2026Base Station Adj to Wingletye Lane Emerson Park Hornchurch RM11 3AA
Received 1 Feb 201648 Ingrebourne Gardens Upminster RM14 1BN
Received 11 Apr 201840 Kingsmead Avenue Romford RM1 2BT
Received 10 Oct 202573 Hornchurch Road Hornchurch RM11 1DP
Received 9 Jan 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage