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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
20 Fairlop Close Hornchurch RM12 5PH
Received 18 Nov 2024Squirrels Heath Infant School Salisbury Road Romford RM2 5TP
Received 26 Sept 201385 Ferry Lane Rainham RM13 9YH
Received 10 Feb 201625 Birch Road Romford RM7 8ER
Received 20 Oct 202333 Rosewood Avenue Elm Park RM12 5LH
Received 13 Mar 201517 Fairkytes Avenue Hornchurch RM11 1XS
Received 11 Apr 202368 Station Lane HORNCHURCH RM12 6NB
Received 14 Mar 2018Havering Sixth Form College Wingletye Lane Hornchurch RM11 3TB
Received 19 Mar 2015161 London Road Romford RM7 9QH
Received 2 May 201997A Marlborough Road Romford RM7 8AP
Received 18 Oct 20222a Bellevue Road Hornchurch RM11 3SS
Received 2 Jul 2019Upminster Underground Depot Front Lane Cranham Upminster RM14 1XL
Received 4 Sept 20181 Macdonald Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2NF
Received 13 Aug 201546 Meadow Way Upminster RM14 3AD
Received 24 Oct 201816 Roxburgh Avenue Upminster RM14 3BA
Received 27 Mar 201516 Pettits Lane ROMFORD RM1 4HH
Received 7 Dec 20174 Reed Pond Walk Gidea Park Romford RM2
Received 9 Jan 201825 Fernbank Avenue Elm Park RM12 5RA
Received 4 Jun 201565 Grove Park Road Rainham RM13 7DA
Received 13 Mar 2015Ashton Gate Ashton Road Harold Hill Romford RM3 8UF
Received 12 Feb 201636 Nelwyn Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2PZ
Received 8 Nov 202356 Cavendish Crescent Hornchurch RM12 5NT
Received 25 Apr 201611 Sussex Avenue Harold Wood Romford Rm3 0Ta
Received 21 Jun 20191 Essex Close Romford RM7 8BD
Received 19 Jul 2024Records 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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