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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
479 Rush Green Road Romford RM7 0NH
Received 8 Jul 201919 Court Avenue Romford RM3 0XS
Received 9 Jan 201934 Risebridge Road Gidea Park Romford RM2 5PR
Received 28 Mar 201713 Ravenscourt Grove Hornchurch RM12 6HS
Received 28 Aug 20242 St Clements Avenue Romford RM3 0HY
Received 10 Nov 20231 MAPLE AVENUE UPMINSTER RM14 2LF
Received 13 Mar 2024Land North of Southend Arterial Road Hornchurch RM11 3UB
Received 19 Jun 20194 Fordyce Close Hornchurch RM11 3LE
Received 4 Jun 201888-100 Equitable House, South Street Romford RM1 1RX
Received 2 Jun 2026William Pike House Waterloo Gardens Romford RM7 9BD
Received 14 Oct 201424 Vaughan Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6SL
Received 11 Nov 202436 Waldegrave Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 1UX
Received 20 Feb 201878 Eyhurst Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4RA
Received 29 Jun 202329 Louise Gardens Rainham RM13 8LH
Received 3 Apr 202350a Station Road Upminster RM14 2TR
Received 14 Jun 2017Grand Oaks 19 Burntwood Avenue Hornchurch RM11 3JD
Received 15 Sept 202325 Allen Road RAINHAM RM13 9JS
Received 24 Apr 201712 MEADOW ROAD ROMFORD RM7 0LP
Received 13 Sept 2017Suttons Junior And Mixed Infants School Suttons Lane Hornchurch RM12 6RP
Received 31 Jan 202421-22 The Green Rainham RM13 9DX
Received 10 Oct 202469 Benhurst Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4QS
Received 18 Jul 2014Phase 2A , Former Harold Wood Hospital Gubbins Lane Harold Wood RM3 0BE
Received 17 Aug 2017367B London Road Romford RM7 9NU
Received 10 Jun 20166 Easedale Drive Elm Park Essex RM12 5HJ
Received 28 Nov 2018Records 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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