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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Betterton Road Rainham RM13 8NA
Received 23 Nov 2023207-213 High Street Hornchurch RM11 3XT
Received 25 Aug 20157 THE SHRUBBERY UPMINSTER RM14 3AH
Received 14 Sept 20236 Brookdale Close Upminster
Received 2 Oct 20141-33 Skeales Court Sunrise Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4YA
Received 14 Jul 2014342 Upminster Road North Rainham RM13 9RY
Received 6 Jun 2019Bridge Point Southend Arterial Road HORNCHURCH RM11 2SY
Received 17 Aug 201769 Ardleigh Green Road Hornchurch
Received 5 Apr 201851 Lowshoe Lane ROMFORD RM5 2AA
Received 6 Nov 201718 Sylvan Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2PN
Received 5 Feb 202468/70 Cranham Gardens Cranham Upminster Essex RM14 1JQ
Received 16 Aug 201915 Links Avenue Romford RM2 6NB
Received 4 Jun 201816 Tadworth Parade Elm Park Hornchurch RM12 5AS
Received 23 Apr 20187 Ongar Way Rainham RM13 7TS
Received 28 Feb 2018Mylands Farm Broxhill Road Havering-atte-Bower ROMFORD RM4 1QH
Received 16 Sept 201912 Kingsmead Avenue Romford RM1 2BT
Received 20 Apr 2016127 Bush Elms Road Hornchurch RM11 1LU
Received 5 May 20237 Tadworth Parade, Robert Milne And Co Hornchurch RM12 5AS
Received 16 Apr 20197 Lime Close Romford RM7 7BD
Received 16 Mar 201757 Askwith Road Rainham RM13 8EL
Received 25 May 202394 Gubbins Lane Romford RM3 0BL
Received 10 Jun 2019Carlisle House 198 Victoria Road Romford RM1 2NX
Received 14 Nov 2024Ambulance Station, Suttons Lane Hornchurch RM12 6R
Received 8 May 202584 Harlow Road RAINHAM RM13 7UA
Received 5 Apr 2017Records 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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