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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
144 Maybank Avenue Hornchurch RM12 5SH
Received 22 Apr 20156 ASCENSION ROAD ROMFORD RM5 3RS
Received 5 Jun 202323-55 North Street Romford RM1 1BJ
Received 20 Dec 2022150 Corbets Tey Road UPMINSTER RM14 2EJ
Received 3 Aug 201668 Rothbury Avenue Rainham RM13 9HZ
Received 8 Jul 2019corner of Angel Way & St Edwards Way Romford
Received 12 Feb 201411 Mcintosh Road Romford RM1 4JU
Received 6 Aug 2026306 Goodwood Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6DH
Received 2 Apr 201517 Athelstan Road Romford RM3 0QD
Received 27 Aug 20252 Abbotts Close Romford RM7 8QU
Received 23 Nov 201836 Victoria Road Romford RM1 2JH
Received 1 Jun 2015Hare Lodge, 487 Upper Brentwood Road Romford RM2 6LA
Received 12 Sept 202343 Lowshoe Lane Romford RM5 2AA
Received 20 Aug 2024161A High Street Hornchurch RM11 3XS
Received 5 Jun 202459 Albany Road HORNCHURCH RM12 4AE
Received 20 Apr 2017Bower House, Amana Trust Orange Tree Hill, Havering-atte-bower Romford RM4 1PB
Received 22 May 202428 Nightingale Avenue UPMINSTER RM14 1ES
Received 9 Dec 201620 Farm Road Rainham RM13 9JU
Received 2 Oct 201520 Heath Drive Gidea Park RM2 5QH
Received 24 Oct 20162 Hubbards Chase Hornchurch RM11 3DJ
Received 17 May 20238 Ferguson Avenue Romford RM2 6RB
Received 17 Jul 2025The Convent Sacred Heart of Mary 64 St Mary's Lane Upminster RM14 2QR
Received 28 Jan 201613 Priory Grove Romford RM3 9AS
Received 21 May 2018Car park associated with Chaucer House 28 Western Road Romford RM1 3JT
Received 10 Nov 2014Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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