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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
18 Crowlands Avenue Romford RM7 9JB
Received 8 Aug 20189 Barnstaple Road ROMFORD RM3 7SS
Received 1 Feb 201849 Tindall Close ROMFORD RM3 0PB
Received 25 Oct 201663-65 Butts Green Road Hornchurch RM11 2JS
Received 15 Feb 202417 Brook Road Romford Essex RM2 5QS
Received 16 Oct 20155 Ambleside Avenue HORNCHURCH RM12 5ES
Received 7 Feb 201720 Wilfred Avenue Rainham RM13 9TX
Received 15 Dec 201529 Briscoe Road Rainham RM13 9QE
Received 23 Sept 202575 Redriff Road RM7 8HD
Received 30 May 201879 Link Way Hornchurch RM11 3RN
Received 16 Feb 20264 CASTLE AVENUE RAINHAM RM13 7TD
Received 23 Sept 201961 Waldegrave Gardens Upminster RM14 1UT
Received 1 Apr 201959 Ingreway Romford RM3 0BN
Received 2 Sept 202653 Balgores Lane Romford RM2 5JU
Received 15 Jul 202464 Station Lane (CIPHE) Hornchurch RM12 6NB
Received 18 Mar 201556 Ascension Road Romford RM5 3RT
Received 21 Jul 202528 Ernest Road Hornchurch RM11 3JQ
Received 27 Oct 202219 Brook Road Romford RM2 5QS
Received 1 Apr 201666 Station Road Upminster RM14 2TD
Received 9 Dec 202417 Fairholme Avenue Romford RM2 5UP
Received 27 Feb 202678 Stanley Avenue Romford RM2 5DR
Received 23 Jun 20231 Elm Walk Gidea Park Romford
Received 10 Jun 2015174 Suttons Lane Hornchurch RM12 6RU
Received 12 Jun 202576 Jubilee Avenue Romford RM7 9LT
Received 8 Dec 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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