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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Dovers Corner Industrial Estate New Road Rainham RM13 8QT
Received 29 Jun 20182 Somerset Gardens Hornchurch RM11 3QU
Received 6 Jul 201581 Sycamore Avenue Upminster RM14 2HS
Received 30 Oct 201598 Kenilworth Gardens Hornchurch RM12 4SG
Received 13 Oct 2025114 Hornchurch Road Hornchurch RM11 1DL
Received 9 Oct 202524 Oates Road Romford RM5 2HT
Received 24 Mar 20151A Ferndale Road ROMFORD RM5 3ER
Received 4 Apr 201735a New Road Rainham RM13 8DR
Received 20 Oct 201441 Cranham Road Hornchurch RM11 2AB
Received 16 Apr 2026Medina Farm Dennises Lane South Ockendon Essex RM14 2BX
Received 4 May 20231 HIGHFIELD ROAD ROMFORD RM5 3RA
Received 16 Jun 202379 Lynton Avenue Romford RM7 8NH
Received 26 Jun 20245 Park End Road Romford RM1 4AT
Received 24 Nov 202210 Leconfield Walk HORNCHURCH RM12 6NZ
Received 11 Aug 201749 St Marys Lane Upminster RM14 2QU
Received 22 Sept 20157 Link Way Hornchurch Essex RM11 3RN
Received 7 Oct 20158 Park Lane Hornchurch RM11 1BB
Received 28 Jun 202427 Laburnham Gardens Upminster RM14 1HX
Received 4 Nov 2025Three Horseshoe Farm Noak Hill Road Romford RM3 7LD
Received 2 Dec 201494 Macdonald Avenue Hornchurch Essex RM11 2NE
Received 13 Aug 2015Car Park Adjacent 30 Dorrington Gardens Hornchurch RM12 4HX
Received 21 Jan 2026Land to the East of Upminster Cemetery Ockendon Road Upminster RM14 2UY
Received 3 Sept 201828 Clitheroe Road Romford RM5 2SL
Received 1 Sept 2026Frances Bardsley School for Girls Brentwood Road Romford RM1 2RR
Received 27 Feb 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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