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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
202 Marlborough Road Romford RM7 8AL
Received 3 Oct 2023Brady Primary School Wennington Road RAINHAM RM13 9XA
Received 10 Jul 201816 MEADOW WAY UPMINSTER RM14 3AD
Received 17 Jan 201827 Clyde Way Rise Park RM1 4UR
Received 19 Jan 201776 Norman Road Hornchurch RM11 1NB
Received 12 Jan 202631 Lynwood Drive Romford RM5 2RB
Received 23 Nov 202312 Sunrise Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4YS
Received 22 Dec 20144 KYNANCE CLOSE ROMFORD RM3 7LB
Received 21 Dec 20187 Merlin Gardens ROMFORD RM5 3YD
Received 11 Oct 201739 Brookside Hornchurch RM11 2RL
Received 18 Jun 2026Phase 2A, Former Harold Wood Hospital Gubbins Lane Harold Wood RM3 0BE
Received 11 Aug 201567 Lawns Way Romford RM5 3TD
Received 23 May 2018109 Collier Row Road Romford RM5 2AT
Received 31 Jul 201936C Upminster Road Rainham Essex Rm13 9AA
Received 7 Mar 20189 Henderson Close Hornchurch RM11 1FG
Received 28 May 201584 Carter Drive Romford RM5 2UT
Received 25 Oct 2022Land bound by Waterloo Road to the east; the Great Eastern M Cotleigh Road to the west; and London Road to the north Romford RM7 9AT
Received 12 May 202614 Forth Road Upminster RM14 1PX
Received 3 May 2018Liberty Shopping Centre Car Park Western Road Romford RM1 3LD
Received 17 Sept 202538 Dee Way Romford
Received 24 Mar 20171 Jersey Road Land Adj to(1a Jersey Road) Rainham RM13 7DR
Received 13 Jul 201728 Edmund Road Rainham RM13 8LX
Received 20 Mar 202414 Dalewood Close Hornchurch RM11 3PJ
Received 25 Jul 201922 Wickford Close Romford RM3 9SD
Received 6 Jan 2015Records 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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