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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
65 Fairview Avenue Rainham RM13 9RL
Received 12 Nov 201597-123 Hillrise Road (odd) Romford RM5 3BN
Received 6 May 201574 Milton Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4BW
Received 30 Aug 201962 Lodge Avenue ROMFORD RM2 5AL
Received 6 Jun 201743 Wykeham Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2LA
Received 31 Jul 2018Unit 26, Beam Reach 8C Ferry Lane South Rainham RM13
Received 18 Mar 2014PARK LODGE LAMBS LANE NORTH RAINHAM RM13 9XF
Received 11 Sept 201432 Hillfoot Road ROMFORD RM5 3LL
Received 22 May 20171 Cane Hill Harold Wood Romford RM3 0WH
Received 22 Sept 201830a Highview Gardens Upminster RM14 2YZ
Received 20 Aug 201475 North Street Hornchurch RM11 1ST
Received 15 Jul 201952 Deyncourt Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 1DG
Received 10 Jun 201634 Canterbury Avenue UPMINSTER RM14 3LD
Received 16 Mar 201733 Maidstone Avenue Romford RM5 3DB
Received 6 Nov 20259 Elm Parade St Nicholas Avenue Elm Park Hornchurch RM124RL
Received 31 Mar 2016219 Crow Lane Romford RM7 0HA
Received 18 Jul 2025Bush Farm House, Bramble Lane Upminster RM14 2XL
Received 16 Oct 2023134 White Hart Lane Romford RM7 8LX
Received 3 Dec 202547 Brookdale Avenue UPMINSTER RM14 2LT
Received 19 Aug 201752 STANDEN AVENUE HORNCHURCH RM12 6AD
Received 23 Mar 202641 Westland Avenue HORNCHURCH RM11 3SD
Received 4 Jul 2017116 Beauly Way Romford RM1 4XR
Received 30 Jan 202356 Devonshire Road Hornchurch RM12 4LQ
Received 18 Oct 202236a Cowdray Way Hornchurch RM12 4AU
Received 8 Feb 2017Records 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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