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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 at former Harold Wood Hospital Site St Clements Avenue Harold Wood RM3 0BE
Received 21 Dec 2016274 Goodwood Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6DH
Received 28 Jul 2014468 HAVERING ROAD ROMFORD RM1 4HR
Received 19 Jun 202342 Lodge Avenue Romford RM2 5AL
Received 17 Aug 201535 Lakeside Rainham Essex RM13 9SN
Received 11 May 2016Former St Benards Centre Peel Way Harold Wood Romford RM3 0JD
Received 19 Dec 202510 Forest Road Romford RM7 8DT
Received 20 Jul 20172 The Fairway UPMINSTER RM14 1BS
Received 28 Dec 2017114 Bruce Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4HY
Received 19 Oct 201826 Briar Road Romford RM3 8AP
Received 30 May 201930 Linley crescent Romford RM7 8RD
Received 6 Feb 2019151 Squirrels Heath Lane Hornchurch RM11 2DY
Received 5 Sept 202231 Frederick Road Rainham RM13 8NJ
Received 2 Nov 202476 Woodhall Crescent Hornchurch RM11 3NZ
Received 6 May 2015221 Mawney Road Romford RM7 8DJ
Received 12 Nov 201510 St Georges Avenue Hornchurch Essex RM11 3PD
Received 15 Jun 20175 Kent Drive Hornchurch RM12 6TD
Received 13 Jul 2026King George Close Romford RM7 7PN
Received 23 Oct 20141b Grosvenor Gardens Upminster RM14 1DL
Received 20 Jan 201523 Medora Road ROMFORD RM7 7EP
Received 25 Jul 20171 Crossways Gidea Park Romford RM2 6AA
Received 20 Sept 2016Former Harold Wood Hospital Gubbins Lane London RM3 0BE
Received 2 Apr 201462 Marks Road Romford RM7 7AH
Received 19 Nov 201858 Springfield Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 3ER
Received 29 Sept 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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