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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 New Cottages Wennington Road Rainham Essex RM13 9DR
Received 20 Apr 2016118 Stanley Avenue Romford
Received 12 Feb 201426 HORNFORD WAY ROMFORD RM7 0PR
Received 14 Jan 201991 Rush Green Road Romford RM7 0PU
Received 21 Oct 20242 Hubbards Chase Hornchurch RM11 3DJ
Received 7 Jun 20231c Ferndale Road London RM5 3ER
Received 13 Sept 201629 Priory Road Romford RM3 9AP
Received 5 Aug 201978 Manston Way Hornchurch RM12 5PE
Received 25 Jan 201636 Ravenscourt Grove Hornchurch RM12 6HS
Received 18 Sept 2019204 Southend Arterial Road Hornchurch RM11 2SQ
Received 15 Mar 201824 Abbotts Close Romford RM7 8QU
Received 16 Sept 202460 ERNEST ROAD HORNCHURCH RM11 3JW
Received 23 Mar 2018Denver Industrial Estate Ferry Lane Rainham RM13 9DD
Received 26 Jun 201920 Parsonage Road Rainham RM13 9LW
Received 4 Apr 202444 Petworth Way Hornchurch RM12 4LR
Received 20 Dec 20231 Plain Tile Cottages, Bird Lane Upminster RM14 1TY
Received 28 Nov 20222 Dee Way Romford RM1 4XB
Received 31 Aug 2018189 Alma Avenue Hornchurch RM12 6BH
Received 4 Jun 2018173 Faringdon Avenue ROMFORD RM3 8JT
Received 21 Dec 201652 Links Avenue Romford RM2 6ND
Received 18 Sept 2018The Axis Development Mercury Gardens Romford RM1 3HE
Received 24 Nov 2022Gidea Park Primary School Lodge Avenue ROMFORD RM2 5AJ
Received 11 May 2016238 Balgores Lane pavement outside Gidea Park Romford RM2 6BS
Received 21 Nov 2018Land Adj to Blossom Hill View, Church Road Romford RM4 1LD
Received 1 Dec 2025Records 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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