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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 River Drive UPMINSTER RM14 1AS
Received 31 Jan 2017105 Jubilee Avenue Romford RM7 9LT
Received 1 Sept 201554 Parkway ROMFORD RM2 5PA
Received 20 Feb 201721 Cedar Road Hornchurch RM12 4YL
Received 24 Feb 2026123A Pettits Lane Romford RM1 4EJ
Received 2 Sept 201953 Chestnut Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4HJ
Received 4 Jan 2017417 Brentwood Road Romford RM2 6DD
Received 10 Sept 202522 Sycamore Avenue Upminster RM14 2HR
Received 6 Nov 2015Best Friends Vets 230 South Street Romford Essex RM1 2AD
Received 17 Aug 20157 Crossways Romford RM2 6AA
Received 31 Oct 202411 Abbs Cross Gardens Hornchurch RM12 4XJ
Received 28 Oct 2015216 High Street Hornchurch RM12 6QP
Received 21 Nov 202350 David Drive Romford RM3 0XX
Received 17 Feb 20234 Damyns Hall Cottages, Aveley Road Upminster RM14 2TQ
Received 15 Oct 202539 Byron Way Romford RM3 7PR
Received 17 Oct 202435 Kerry Drive Upminster RM14 1JB
Received 16 May 20168 Cherry Tree Close Rainham RM13 7QU
Received 18 Jul 20251 Charlbury Crescent Romford RM3 8YR
Received 2 Mar 2023181 South Street Romford RM1 1PS
Received 20 Jan 201525 Ramsden Drive ROMFORD RM5 2NL
Received 2 Jun 20163 Clydesdale Road Hornchurch RM11 1AG
Received 4 Jun 2026194-204 Main Road Romford
Received 13 Apr 201615 Haynes Road Hornchurch RM11 2HS
Received 22 May 201810 Ashburnham Gardens Upminster RM14 1XA
Received 30 Nov 2018Records 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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