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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865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
39 Keswick Avenue Hornchurch RM11 1XR
Received 25 Feb 2026205 Rainham Road RAINHAM RM13 7SB
Received 4 Sept 2017Plot 2 Former Whitworth Centre Noak Hill Road Harold Hill
Received 1 Oct 20145 Hacton Parade Central Park Drive Hornchurch RM12 6EL
Received 30 Oct 201849 Cromer Road Hornchurch
Received 2 Dec 201430 Crossways Romford RM2 6AL
Received 21 Apr 202386 Chippenham Road Harold Hill Romford RM3 8HR
Received 26 Mar 20196 Tyne Close Upminster RM14 1QB
Received 23 Jul 20153 Ferry Lane Industrial Estate Lamson Road RAINHAM RM13 9YY
Received 24 Jul 2017103 Cherry Tree Lane RAINHAM RM13 8TT
Received 5 Oct 201690 Macdonald Avenue Hornchurch
Received 18 Feb 2014Gooshays Drive corner of Colchester Road (land at) RM3 0DL
Received 16 Nov 2015229 Marks Road ROMFORD RM7 7AF
Received 28 Dec 20176 Wincanton Road ROMFORD RM3 9DH
Received 8 Sept 2017The Oaks Broxhill Road Havering-atte-Bower ROMFORD RM4 1QJ
Received 26 Jan 201735 FAIRHOLME GARDENS UPMINSTER RM14 1HJ
Received 22 Feb 2018Land at Crow Lane / Sandgate Close Romford RM7 0ED
Received 25 Jul 2018192 Front Lane Upminster RM14 1LW
Received 8 Feb 2024Eastern Avenue Retail Park, Eastern Avenue West Romford RM7 7EX
Received 16 Jun 202323 Alverstoke Road Romford RM3 8QR
Received 23 Jun 201634 Lake Rise Romford RM1 4DY
Received 2 Oct 202652 Station Lane Hornchurch RM12 6NB
Received 18 Mar 2016Greenways Court Butts Green Hornchurch RM11 2JL
Received 5 Apr 20183 Saffron Road ROMFORD RM5 3ES
Received 14 Apr 2016Records 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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