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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Beam Service Station 23 23 New Road Rainham Essex RM13 8DP
Received 23 Apr 201943 The Drive Collier Row RM5 3TP
Received 22 Mar 2016204 Carlton Road ROMFORD RM2 5BA
Received 4 Jan 20179 Barnstaple Road ROMFORD RM3 7SS
Received 16 Nov 201729 Sheffield Drive ROMFORD RM3 9YH
Received 18 Jan 201883 Crossways Romford RM2 6AS
Received 24 May 202313 Epping Close Romford RM7 8BH
Received 9 Mar 2016238 Osborne Road Hornchurch RM11 1HR
Received 22 Aug 202234 High Street Pavement O/s Romford RM1 1HR
Received 21 Nov 201841 Warden Avenue Romford RM5 2SP
Received 11 Aug 201834 Great Gardens Road Hornchurch RM11 2BB
Received 7 Mar 2016Former St Bernards Day Centre Peel Way Harold Wood RM3 0PD
Received 2 Jun 2026First Floor, 53-55 South Street ROMFORD RM1 1NL
Received 3 Jun 2016305 CORBETS TEY ROAD UPMINSTER RM14 2DE
Received 24 Aug 2017Rainham Marshes Silt Lagoons Rainham Marshes Rainham RM13 9YQ
Received 19 Dec 202511 Penrith Road Romford RM3 9NS
Received 13 Apr 2026147 Udall Gardens Collier Row Romford RM5 2LA
Received 16 Feb 2016Beam park Former Ford Assembly Plant Site New Road (A1306) Rainham
Received 28 Mar 202339 Maidstone Avenue Romford RM5 3DB
Received 18 Jul 201877 Harwood Avenue Hornchurch RM11 2NY
Received 7 Nov 20232 HUMBLEWARD PLACE ROMFORD RM3 9FN
Received 12 Feb 202418 Kent View Wennington Road Wennington Rainham RM13 9DT
Received 13 Nov 202331 High Street HORNCHURCH RM11 1TP
Received 15 Sept 201668 Primrose Glen
Received 11 Mar 2016Records 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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