84-86 Straight Road Romford RM3 8AB

P1217.24FullRefused

Refused on 16 December 2024

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use of former police station to a pizza restaurant & takeaway with outside seating area to frontage, incorporating a new shopfront, with some external alterations to the Faringdon Avenue elevation to introduce obscured windows to back of house areas.

Received: 6 September 2024
Council: London Borough of Havering
Ward: Heaton

ReceivedReceived6 Sep
ValidatedValidated15 Oct
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date16 Dec
DecidedDecided16 Dec

Decided in 62 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 84-86 Straight Road Romford RM3 8AB. Havering has handled 1,984 applications of this type. This one was decided in 101 days, 6 weeks longer than Havering's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 72 applications across Heaton. We hold 912 applications in total for the RM3 postcode area.

78% of full applications at London Borough of Havering were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: RM3 8AB
Application type: Full
Scale / size: Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated: 15 October 2024
Target decision date: 16 December 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address: mr stephen margett Suite 10, Essex House Station Road Upminster RM14 2SJ

Planning decision

Statutory period: 62 days

Additional information

Documents: 10

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

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Source: Havering

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