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Free Havering permitted development checker
Could your home project use permitted development? Start with your full address and tell us what you want to build.
You do not need to know the planning route before you start. The check uses available public records and your project details to provide guidance, not a council decision.
About the planning data
Checked against 20.6 million UK planning applications on file across 420 planning authorities. Approval rates from 2,343,419 decisions we classified across 181 councils in England.
What are you checking?
Whether your proposed work may qualify for permitted development, needs a prior approval process or requires a planning application. The property and the complete proposal matter, including earlier additions and conditions on previous permissions.
Read how prior approval works and how planning timescales differ by route.
A postcode locates an area; it cannot establish rights for a particular house. Use your full property address in the checker.
Find guidance for your project
- Rear extensions and larger home extensions
- Side and wraparound extensions
- Loft conversions and dormers
- Garden rooms and outbuildings
- Garage conversions
- Porches
- Two-storey extensions
- Basements
For development beyond a home improvement, read our new build and change of use guides. Those projects have different eligibility tests and need a project-specific assessment.
Local checks in Havering
Check the wording, map and effective date of any Article 4 direction, the property's planning conditions and whether designated land affects the relevant right. A restriction on one type of work does not automatically prohibit every alteration.
Use these resources for Havering. Confirm the authority for your address if you are close to a boundary or the area has changed council.
- Havering official website and planning information
- Search Havering planning applications and decision notices
- Havering planning authority boundary and source
- Find the planning authority for your postcode
We have not verified every local restriction for every address in Havering. Confirm property-specific details against the authority's current records before relying on permitted development.
Our Havering archive contains 10,038 classified home project decision records. Explore Havering decisions by project type. These records mix application routes: an approval rate is not a permitted development eligibility score. See the coverage and methodology.
Permitted development restrictions in Havering
Havering publishes separate Article 4 pages for HMOs, Gidea Park and Upminster. Its Aurora map allows address-based checks of conservation areas and other planning layers. Check the relevant direction and any conditions on the property's planning history before assuming the proposed work is permitted development.
- Havering Article 4 directions
- Havering Aurora map and conservation-area search
- Havering planning application and validation guidance
- Havering adopted planning policy and plan update
Sources reviewed . Check the source maps, wording and effective dates against your property and proposed work.
Certificate records to investigate
Selected archive records, not a representative sample or a prediction for your address. The descriptions below are archive excerpts and may be shortened; read the original decision and plans before relying on them.
- D0565.25 · Recorded refused (2026)
Certificate of Lawfulness for proposed single storey outbuilding to rear.
Open the council record for D0565.25 - D0431.25 · Recorded refused (2025)
Certificate of lawfulness for proposed hip to Gable Loft conversion with rear dormer and front velux windows along with demolishing the existing garage and c...
Open the council record for D0431.25
A certificate concerns the lawfulness of the scheme described. Another property's certificate does not establish your permitted development rights. Read the archive's coverage and limitations.
Do you need a permitted development certificate?
A proposed lawful development certificate gives formal confirmation that the development described is lawful. It is optional and is different from prior approval or a planning application. Read our lawful development certificate guide.
The free check does not grant permission or replace a certificate. Check official certificate guidance and the government's explanation of planning routes.