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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
56 Main Road Gidea Park, Romford RM1 3BD
Received 20 Apr 201513 Burges Close Hornchurch RM11 3PP
Received 17 Jun 2015Freightmaster Estate Coldharbour Lane Rainham
Received 18 Oct 2018Harefield Manor Hotel 48 Main Road ROMFORD RM1 3DB
Received 23 Nov 2016Car Park Adjacent 30 Dorrington Gardens Hornchurch RM12 4HX
Received 21 Jan 2026328 Straight Road Romford RM3 8XX
Received 27 Jun 201847 Unit 2a, Capita Health And Wellbeing Market Place Romford RM1 3AB
Received 20 Nov 20258 Ruskin Avenue Upminster RM14 1AZ
Received 25 Mar 20192B Havering Drive Romford RM1 4BB
Received 9 Mar 201523 Little Gaynes Lane UPMINSTER RM14 2JJ
Received 28 Oct 20161 The Crescent Upminster RM14 1JY
Received 11 Dec 202422 Boscombe Avenue Hornchurch RM11 1JQ
Received 1 Apr 201984B Upminster Road South Rainham RM13 9AA
Received 11 Apr 2024Diamond Court Park Lane HORNCHURCH RM11 1EN
Received 4 Oct 201612 Elm Walk Romford RM2 5NR
Received 29 Oct 2025Paynes Brothers Ltd 69 Oldchurch Road ROMFORD RM7 0BB
Received 1 Feb 201859 Ingrebourne Gardens Upminster RM14 1BN
Received 9 Mar 2015Excel House 1 Hornminster Glen HORNCHURCH RM11 3XL
Received 14 May 2018275 RAINHAM ROAD RAINHAM RM13 7SH
Received 9 Jul 202433 Glebe Way Hornchurch RM11 3RR
Received 12 Aug 20153 Lilliput Road Romford RM7 0BJ
Received 23 Aug 202324 Brookside Emerson Park RM11 2RS
Received 4 Feb 201546 Hyland Way Hornchurch RM11 1DW
Received 16 Jul 202628 Hog Hill Road Romford RM5 2DH
Received 18 Apr 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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