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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Humber Drive Upminster RM14 1PU
Received 16 Sept 20191 Albert Road ROMFORD RM1 2PD
Received 18 Sept 2017Howards Farm Tomkyns Lane Upminster RM14 1TP
Received 4 Jun 202442 KENILWORTH AVENUE ROMFORD RM3 9NE
Received 18 Aug 202518 Troopers Drive Harold Hill RM3 9DE
Received 16 Jan 201720 Vicarage Road Hornchurch RM12 4AT
Received 5 Nov 20151 Blewitts Cottages New Road Rainham RM13 8SL
Received 24 Oct 2025152 Lancaster Drive Hornchurch RM12 5SL
Received 2 Jul 2024356 Wingletye Lane HORNCHURCH RM11 3BU
Received 20 Oct 201748 Beltinge Road Romford RM3 0UJ
Received 18 Mar 201419 Ingleglen HORNCHURCH RM11 3BB
Received 29 Sept 2016Unit 1, 14 Victoria Road Romford RM1 2JH
Received 15 Dec 202366-68 Brentwood Road Romford RM1 2EP
Received 15 Jan 201848-50 South Street ROMFORD RM1 1RB
Received 23 Jan 20187 Heaton Avenue ROMFORD RM3 7HR
Received 5 May 201623 Meadowside Road UPMINSTER RM14 3YT
Received 31 Aug 2016Freightmaster Estate Coldharbour Lane Rainham C/O Agent RM13 9BJ
Received 23 Aug 2024Harold Wood Branch Library Arundel Road Romford RM3 0RX
Received 13 Aug 2018Thames Chase Forest Centre Pike Lane Upminster RM14 3NS
Received 13 Oct 201429 Orchard Road Romford RM7 8HR
Received 20 Mar 20151 Recreation Avenue Harold Wood Romford RM3 0TU
Received 21 May 201926 Lytton Road Romford RM2 5SL
Received 28 Jun 2018163 Haynes Road Hornchurch RM11 2HX
Received 28 Sept 201572 Mount Pleasant Road Romford RM5 3YL
Received 14 Jun 2023Records 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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