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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
32 Wolseley Road Romford RM7 0BS
Received 23 Jul 202618 Squirrels Heath Avenue Romford RM2 6AH
Received 9 Mar 201623-55 North Street Romford RM1 1BJ
Received 9 Sept 2015(Briar Site 10C) Garage Court between 52-54 Myrtle Road and 2 Barberry Close Romford
Received 4 Oct 201374 Stanley Road North Rainham RM13 8BJ
Received 8 Sept 201615 Crossways Romford RM2 6AA
Received 4 Jul 2023West Park Lodge Farm Broxhill Road Havering Atte-Bower Romford RM4 1QH
Received 29 Oct 201514 Rushmere Avenue Upminster RM14 3AN
Received 10 May 201972 Aldborough Road UPMINSTER RM14 2RP
Received 25 May 2016Mylands Farm Broxhill Road Havering-atte-Bower RM4 1QB
Received 10 Jul 201912 Fleet Close Upminster RM14 1PS
Received 16 Apr 201924 Rosebank Avenue Hornchurch RM12 5QX
Received 8 Jul 201840 Stapleton Crescent Rainham RM13 7HA
Received 17 Jun 202526 RAVENSBOURNE CRESCENT ROMFORD RM3 0UB
Received 13 Feb 201822 Northumberland Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2HL
Received 10 Sept 202520 Braemar Gardens Hornchurch RM11 3BP
Received 1 Feb 202316 Adelphi Crescent Hornchurch RM12 4JY
Received 25 Jun 20192 Philip Road Rainham RM13 8LT
Received 5 Oct 20185 Deere Avenue Rainham RM13 7JJ
Received 9 Jun 2025133 Turpin Avenue Romford RM5 2LU
Received 23 May 202414 Sylvan Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2PN
Received 4 Feb 202686 Avon Road Upminster RM14 1RF
Received 15 Jan 20267, 7A, 9 and 9A PARK LANE HORNCHURCH RM11 1BB
Received 20 Apr 202616 Allenby Drive HORNCHURCH RM11 3SA
Received 7 Oct 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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