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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
8 Spingate Close Hornchurch RM12 6SW
Received 16 Mar 202620 New Place Gardens Upminster RM14 3DQ
Received 8 Feb 201997 Moor Lane Upminster
Received 13 Feb 201425 Abbs Cross Gardens HORNCHURCH RM12 4XD
Received 14 Dec 2017Elm Glen Chequers Road Romford RM3 7NA
Received 22 Dec 2017Morland House 12 Eastern Road Romford RM1 3PJ
Received 27 Jan 201637 Laburnum Walk Hornchurch RM12 5RP
Received 31 Oct 2016121 Bush Elms Road Hornchurch RM11 1LU
Received 3 Sept 20257 Ashleigh Gardens Upminster RM14 3AX
Received 14 Dec 201535-37 Gobions Avenue Romford RM5 3SS
Received 24 Apr 2026142 Cross Road Mawneys Romford RM7 8EL
Received 8 May 202523 Mendip Road Hornchurch RM11 1LL
Received 18 Mar 202422 North Street Romford RM1 1BH
Received 17 May 2024125 Lambs Lane South RAINHAM RM13 9XJ
Received 19 May 201728 Oaklands Avenue Romford RM1 4DB
Received 20 Nov 2023Greenways Court Butts Green Road Hornchurch
Received 11 Oct 20104 Brendans Close HORNCHURCH RM11 3UL
Received 28 Jul 2018Broadford Primary School Faringdon Avenue Romford RM3 8JS
Received 24 Jun 2025147 Alma Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6BS
Received 24 Mar 202373 ABBS CROSS LANE HORNCHURCH RM12 4XW
Received 19 Sept 2023304 Straight Road Romford RM3 8XX
Received 1 Nov 202325 Epsom Way Hornchurch RM12 6DU
Received 17 Oct 2018Former Oldchurch Hospital Old church Road Romford RM7 0BF
Received 23 Feb 201776 Gelsthorpe Road Collier Row, Romford RM5 2LX
Received 12 Mar 2014Records 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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