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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adj 178 Suttons Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4LY
Received 9 Feb 2026325 Hilldene Avenue Romford RM3 8DJ
Received 29 Jan 20168 Winchester Avenue Upminster Essex RM14 3LR
Received 14 Mar 20198 Spingate Close Hornchurch RM12 6SW
Received 13 Sept 2023154 Rainham Road Rainham RM13 7SA
Received 27 Oct 202515 Aldergrove Walk Hornchurch
Received 5 Aug 201433 Park Drive (Land Adj) Romford RM1 4LH
Received 31 Oct 20148 Havering Road Romford RM1 4QU
Received 22 Sept 2015Queen Court 9-17 Eastern Road Romford RM1 3NH
Received 16 Sept 202523 Kershaw Close Hornchurch RM11 1SW
Received 13 May 2015Land adjacent to Abbotsford House 21 Gilbert Road & to the rear of 11 Kingston Road Romford RM1 3BX
Received 11 Apr 2024130 Lake Avenue RAINHAM RM13 9SQ
Received 9 Sept 2017Small plot with stables, East side of Heath Drive Romford RM2 5QP
Received 4 Mar 202487 Essex Road Romford RM7 8BB
Received 27 Jul 202690 LINKS AVENUE ROMFORD RM2 6NJ
Received 31 Aug 2017260 SOUTH END ROAD RAINHAM RM13 7XT
Received 19 Feb 201821 WOODLANDS AVENUE HORNCHURCH RM11 2QT
Received 1 Jun 2018Mawney Foundation School Mawney Road ROMFORD RM7 7HR
Received 28 Feb 201850 Heath Drive Romford RM2 5QP
Received 7 May 202423 Church Road Romford Rm3 0JX
Received 3 Jul 201873 Gorseway Rush Green Romford RM7 0RR
Received 29 Jul 201934 Minster Way HORNCHURCH RM11 3TH
Received 25 Sept 201727 Edmund Road Rainham RM13 8LX
Received 2 Aug 20162 Hamilton Drive Romford RM3 0UU
Received 16 Jan 2023Records 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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