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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Wayside Avenue Wayside Avenue Hornchurch RM12 4LL
Received 27 Nov 201723 Ernest Road Hornchurch RM11 3JG
Received 18 May 2024Abbs Cross Lane (Land adj to) Hornchurch RM12 4YD
Received 1 Sept 201530 Upminster Road South Rainham RM13 9AA
Received 13 Feb 201775 Devonshire Road Hornchurch RM12 4LG
Received 14 Aug 2015182 Hainault Road Romford RM5 3AS
Received 29 Nov 202317 Essex Close Romford RM7 8BD
Received 8 Jul 202441 Heath Park Road Romford RM2 5UL
Received 23 Nov 20172 Hamilton Avenue Romford RM1 4RP
Received 8 Jul 2019The Grange Harold Wood Hospital Gubbins Lane Romford RM13 0BE
Received 2 Dec 201477 Straight Road Romford RM3 7JB
Received 29 Aug 202342 WENNINGTON ROAD RAINHAM RM13 9UB
Received 24 May 202321 Coronation Drive Hornchurch RM12 5BL
Received 13 Feb 20266 Olive Street Romford RM7 7DS
Received 25 Sept 2014Travis Perkins Rainham Road Rainham RM13 8ST
Received 26 May 2023COX HOUSE, 1A SEYMER ROAD ROMFORD RM1 4JX
Received 15 May 202656 Balgores Lane Romford RM2 5JU
Received 22 Sept 202240 Ernest Road Hornchurch RM11 3JQ
Received 5 Mar 201974 Ambleside Avenue Hornchurch RM12 5ET
Received 31 Jul 20149 Linley Crescent ROMFORD RM7 8RB
Received 17 Jan 201867 Ingrebourne Road Rainham RM13 9AH
Received 19 Jan 202483 Doncaster Way Upminster RM14 2PP
Received 5 Dec 201811 WEDNESBURY GREEN ROMFORD RM3 9LL
Received 7 Sept 2026175 Shepherds Hill Romford RM3 0NR
Received 10 Oct 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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