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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
38 Avenue Road Harold Wood Essex RM3 0SU
Received 24 Jan 202311 Erroll Road Romford RM1 3DJ
Received 29 Jul 2025Land north of Pinewood Road, Poultry Farm Havering-Atte-Bower Essex RM14 1PH
Received 16 Apr 202436 Fernbank Avenue Elm Park RM12 5RB
Received 31 Mar 2015Hazelwood Front Lane Upminster RM14 1LW
Received 5 Feb 2006Harrow Service Station 132 Hornchurch Road HORNCHURCH RM11 1DP
Received 30 Oct 2017112 High Street Hornchurch RM12 4UH
Received 1 Oct 2014161B Hacton Lane Hornchurch RM14 2YE
Received 14 Sept 2026153 Hillview Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2DL
Received 13 Jul 2018Land to the North of New Road New Road Rainham RM13 9PN
Received 12 Dec 201830 Carlton Road Romford RM2 5AA
Received 8 Jan 201623 Eastern Road (Scimitar House) Romford RM1 3FA
Received 30 Jul 20181 Haywood Mews Romford RM3 9FD
Received 3 Mar 202341 Crow Lane (former piggery) Romford RM7 0EP
Received 24 Apr 2015Homebase Davidson Way ROMFORD RM7 0AJ
Received 25 Jul 201722 Huntsmans Drive Upminster RM14 3YU
Received 3 Dec 201516 LEASWAY UPMINSTER RM14 3AJ
Received 17 May 2017Bower Park School Havering Road ROMFORD RM1 4YY
Received 26 Apr 201752 Eyhurst Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4RA
Received 30 Oct 2025White Rose Villa 37 Ockendon Road Upminster RM14 2DN
Received 7 Aug 202566 Doncaster Way Upminster RM14 2PP
Received 8 Jan 202425 Fernbank Avenue Elm Park RM12 5RA
Received 4 Jun 201522 Petersfield Close Romford RM3 9PS
Received 23 Mar 2023309 St Marys Lane Upminster RM14 3DA
Received 23 Oct 2018Records 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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