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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
63 Benets Road Hornchurch RM11 3PT
Received 31 Jul 2014Cafe Raphael Park Main Road ROMFORD RM2 5EB
Received 3 Mar 201719 Lime Avenue Upminster RM14 2HY
Received 19 Jun 20192 Farnes Drive Romford RM2 6NS
Received 15 Nov 2018Liberty Shopping Centre, Western Road Romford RM1 3RL
Received 23 Jan 20241 Hood Road RAINHAM RM13 8AS
Received 3 Mar 2017Carpetright Plc Southend Arterial Road Hornchurch RM3 0BZ
Received 20 Dec 202447 Lambourne Gardens Hornchurch RM12 4LJ
Received 6 Jun 201826 Newbury Gardens Romford RM3 8HH
Received 10 Apr 202646 Woodstock Avenue Romford RM3 9NF
Received 13 Sept 201910 Waldegrave Gardens Upminster Essex RM14 1UR
Received 23 May 2019HGH Solicitors 98-102 North Street Romford Essex RM1 1DA
Received 30 Oct 202316 Holden Way Upminster
Received 18 Mar 2014241 Dagnam Park Drive Romford RM3 9RT
Received 20 Aug 201857 Montgomery Crescent Romford RM3 7UH
Received 11 Jul 2018114 Jubilee Avenue Romford RM7 9LT
Received 27 Mar 202312 Brights Avenue Rainham RM13 9NN
Received 29 Jun 20151 Tees Close Upminster RM14 1RD
Received 25 Jan 2016180 Lodge Lane Romford RM5 2ET
Received 12 Aug 201983 The Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4JQ
Received 6 Apr 20182 Dowding Way Hornchurch RM12 5AH
Received 30 May 2018Land at Fairhill Rise Lower Bedfords Road ROMFORD RM1 4DQ
Received 27 Apr 201678 South Street First Choice Travel Shop ROMFORD RM1 1RX
Received 14 Feb 201720 High Street Romford RM1 1HR
Received 22 Nov 2016Records 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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