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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
43-47A St Marys Lane Upminster RM14 2QU
Received 5 May 202612 ADNAMS WALK RAINHAM RM13 7NJ
Received 10 Oct 202365 Southdown Road (Land Adj) Hornchurch RM11 1LY
Received 24 Jun 201562 Hall Lane Upminster RM14 1AQ
Received 6 Jun 201814 Meadow Way UPMINSTER RM14 3AA
Received 21 Sept 2016Rise Park Primary School Annan Way Romford RM1 4UD
Received 15 Nov 20224 St Ivians Drive Gidea Park Romford RM2 5LD
Received 1 Dec 2017Harrow Lodge Park, Hornchurch Sports Centre Hornchurch Road Hornchurch RM11 1JU
Received 29 May 201942 Homeway Romford RM3 0HD
Received 1 Dec 2023Base station n/side of Rainham Road adj Playing Fields Rainham Road Elm Park Havering RM13 7LJ
Received 22 Feb 201623 Ashwood Avenue Rainham RM13 9AS
Received 28 Apr 202610 Ullswater Way Hornchurch RM12 5JU
Received 7 Oct 202411 Parkway Gidea Park Romford Essex RM2 5NT
Received 21 Aug 20159 Tall Trees Close Hornchurch RM11 2QR
Received 9 Mar 20161 Sycamore Grove Romford RM2 5GF
Received 9 Dec 2024Bower House (Amana Trust) Orange Tree Hill Havering-Atte-Bower RM4 1PB
Received 6 Aug 201510 Marine Cottage Wennington Road Wennington Rainham RM13 9DY
Received 13 Nov 20232 Arterial Avenue Rainham RM13 9NP
Received 1 Jul 2025Orchard Village Lowen Road Rainham RM13 8PR
Received 14 May 201944 Herbert Road Hornchurch Essx
Received 2 Feb 2016188 Lancaster Drive Hornchurch Essex RM12 5SL
Received 6 Jan 2016Frances Bardsley School For Girls Brentwood Road Romford RM1 2RR
Received 20 Feb 20195 Cranborne Gardens Upminster RM14 2YT
Received 15 Sept 202524 Horndon Road Romford RM5 3EP
Received 9 Feb 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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