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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
280 Main Road Gidea Park Romford RM2 6LU
Received 18 Oct 201835 Wykeham Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2LA
Received 12 Sept 202529 Lessington Avenue Romford
Received 12 Dec 201286 Sunnyside Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 3DR
Received 25 Jan 201726 The Fairway Upminster RM14 1BS
Received 16 Jul 201816 Homeway Romford RM3 0HD
Received 28 Nov 2016Ongar Way and Rainham Road South Hornchurch
Received 20 Apr 2015St Georges Hospital(open space to the south) Adjacent to Suttons Lane Hornchurch RM12 6LP
Received 23 Mar 2016Pavement O/s Gidea Park Station, Station Road, Gidea Park, R London RM2 6BX
Received 21 Nov 20184 Theydon Gardens Rainham RM13 7TU
Received 13 Jul 201618 Maclennan Avenue Rainham RM13 9SS
Received 4 May 201625 Avon Road Upminster RM14 1QU
Received 12 Sept 201867 Corbets Tey Road (Land Adj) Upminster RM14 2AJ
Received 11 Jun 201554 Redden Court Road land adj Harold Wood Romford RM3 0XA
Received 13 Dec 20169 Amery Gardens ROMFORD RM2 6RX
Received 26 Jul 201750 Recreation Avenue Harold Wood Romford RM3 0TJ
Received 15 Jul 2019154 CRANSTON PARK AVENUE UPMINSTER RM14 3XJ
Received 16 Apr 202419 David Drive Harold Wood RM3 0YA
Received 7 Sept 2018110 London Road Romford RM7 9QU
Received 23 Dec 201544 Rosewood Avenue Hornchurch RM12 5LH
Received 24 Jul 202380 Ravensbourne Crescent Romford RM3 0UB
Received 29 Jul 2019292 Elm Park Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4PQ
Received 6 Sept 20182 Silver Way Romford RM7 8EX
Received 10 Oct 2025Martindale Pharmaceuticals, Bampton Road Romford RM3 8UG
Received 6 Jul 2023Records 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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