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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Phase 4B, Harold Wood Hospital Gibbins Lane Harold Wood RM3 0BE
Received 15 Jun 2016Parish Court 1 Crown Drive ROMFORD RM7 0GW
Received 10 Nov 2017131 Laburnum Walk Hornchurch RM12 5RJ
Received 10 Apr 201778 Wennington Road Rainham RM13 9UB
Received 6 Jun 20244 Ayloffs Close Hornchurch RM11 2RH
Received 9 May 202344 Ernest Road Emerson Park
Received 3 Dec 201422 Parkland Avenue Upminster RM14 2EX
Received 10 Jul 20261 Cloister Close Rainham RM13 9AY
Received 19 Apr 202339 Links Avenue Romford RM2 6NB
Received 23 Sept 2015223 Mawney Road Romford RM7 8DJ
Received 23 Jan 20262 Oak Road (Langley Nursing Home) Romford RM3 0PS
Received 23 Sept 2014317 Brentwood Road Romford RM2 5SX
Received 28 Mar 202379 The Grove Upminster RM14 2ES
Received 3 Oct 202236 Collier Row Lane Romford RM5 3BH
Received 19 Mar 2024119 Marlborough Road Romford RM7 8AP
Received 20 Jan 201781 Amery Gardens Gidea Park Romford RM2 6RS
Received 13 Jul 201572D Brentwood Road Romford RM1 2EP
Received 18 Jun 20153 Mansard Close Hornchurch RM12 4HS
Received 17 Jun 202427 Lonsdale Avenue Romford RM7 9JS
Received 23 Feb 202315 Slewins Lane HORNCHURCH RM11 2BZ
Received 16 Feb 20174 South Hall Drive Rainham RM13 9HS
Received 15 Aug 20245 Melstock Avenue Upminster RM14 3UP
Received 22 Jun 201543 Cecil Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2NA
Received 29 Aug 2023Land bound by Waterloo Road to the east; the Great Eastern Main line to the South, Cotleigh Road to the west, and London Road to the north Romford
Received 6 Oct 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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