Havering Council Orders Work to Stop on Five-Home Romford Development
A temporary stop notice has been issued for a property on Squirrels Heath Lane after the council alleged that five planning conditions had not been complied with before construction.
Havering Council has ordered demolition, building and engineering work to stop at the site of a five-home development in Romford following an alleged breach of planning control.
The council issued a temporary stop notice for 45 Squirrels Heath Lane, RM2 6DP, on 6 November 2026. It took effect that day and states that it will cease to have effect on 1 January 2027.
According to the council’s notice, conditions 3, 4, 7, 10 and 25 attached to planning permission P0967.25 had not been complied with before construction of five new homes at the site. These are allegations made by the council in an enforcement notice, not findings by a criminal court.
The proposal described in the council’s earlier planning records involved demolishing existing garages and building five homes, with associated amenity space, landscaping, parking and refuse and recycling facilities.
What the notice requires
The notice directs those involved at the site to cease all demolition work, building works and engineering operations. It also prohibits bringing further building materials, hardcore, aggregates, machinery or scaffolding onto the land.
P Dreams Properties Limited and Bluecroft Gidea Limited are among the parties to whom the document is addressed, alongside owners, occupiers, builders and a commercial finance company. Being named as a recipient of the notice does not itself establish responsibility for a breach or any criminal wrongdoing.
The council warns that contravening a temporary stop notice after it has been served or displayed can lead to prosecution and an unlimited fine on conviction. The published document does not report any prosecution or conviction arising from this notice.
The document also explains that the validity of the notice can be challenged through an application to the High Court for judicial review, rather than through an ordinary planning appeal.
The notice does not establish whether work has since ceased, whether the relevant planning conditions have subsequently been satisfied or whether any of the recipients dispute the council’s assessment.
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