Havering Consultations

In partnership with the NHS North of England Commissioning Support Unit (NECS), we carried out a survey between 1 May and 5 June 2025 to gather your thoughts and opinions on pharmacy services in Havering.

We received 169 responses to the online consultation:

Your feedback helped us better understand what residents need from local pharmaceutical services, including:

• Where community pharmacies are located
• What services they currently offer
• What pharmacy services will be needed in the future across Havering
• Opening new pharmacies
• Changing or merging existing ones
• Expanding the range of services available to you

Your views have helped shape Havering’s draft Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) 2025-28.  We are now consulting on the draft, which means you have another opportunity to influence the final version.

The consultation is open until 17th August 2025.  Please click HERE if you would like to take part.

All feedback will be carefully reviewed and considered in the final version of the assessment.  The PNA will be published on Havering Council’s website by 1 October 2025, and your input will help ensure it reflects the real needs of our residents.

We carried out a consultation between 16 March and 16 May 2025 to seek views on temporary modular homes that were erected in Market Place, Romford.

Havering, like much of London, is seeing a significant increase in the number of people placed in temporary accommodation such as hotels, B&B’s or hostels, which often lack privacy, cooking facilities and adequate living space and places a substantial financial burden on the Council.

We are committed to providing decent homes for our residents, and the modular homes exhibition demonstrated how we can provide energy efficient, well insulated and secure temporary housing for those families transitioning towards long-term housing.  The Council are proposing to erect modular homes in their proposals for the Waterloo and Queen Street scheme, which will be subject to a full tender process and planning.

We had many people visit the modular homes and we received a total of 8 on-line responses to our survey:

• 6 people told us that the homes either met, or exceed their expectations, whereas 2 people declined to say.

• 6 people said they would live there with their family, whereas 2 people declined to say.

• We asked respondents to rank which features of their own home are the most important to them.   In order they were:  Being able to cook in your own kitchen (5), Having separate bedrooms for adults and children (4), followed jointly by Living Space (2), Safety and security (2), and Privacy (2).

• 6 people felt that the homes would be a safe and welcoming environment for children to grow up in, whereas 2 people declined to say.

Planning permission was granted on 30 May 2025 for 18 modular homes on the Waterloo and Queen Street Estate in Romford. 

The scheme is part of the wider regeneration joint venture between Havering Council and Wates Residential that will deliver up to 5,000 new homes across the borough.

Please see Havering Council's news article for more information, and you can find the planning decision here.

We carried out a consultation between 24 March and 2 May 2025 to seek views about the C-card (Come Correct) service - a free and confidential scheme providing access to condoms, sexual health information, and advice.

We asked young people in Havering (aged 16 to 24) how we could raise awareness of the scheme and make it easier for young people to access the service.

We received 53 responses to the online consultation:

• The majority of respondents were aged 16-18 (50), along with 19-21 (1) and 22-24 (2).
• 33 respondents described their gender as female, 19 said male and 1 person preferred not to say.
• The overall majority of respondents (52) had not used the service.
• 43 respondents didn’t know about the service.
• When asked why they hadn’t used the service before, the top 3 answers were:  because they hadn’t heard of it (38), because they were not sexually active (21) and because they didn’t know where to go to access it (8).
• 38 respondents said they would prefer to collect condoms at a pharmacy, 23 said a doctors surgery or health centre, 18 said a school or college, 9 said a children’s centre, 6 said a youth centre, and 3 respondents said ‘other’.
• When asked how young people would prefer to find out about the scheme, 33 said via a relationship and sex education class (RSE), followed by Tiktok (23), health centres (22), school websites (22), Instagram(15), posters in schools (15), youth centres (14) community events (7) and children’s centres (3).

As a direct result of your feedback, our action plan includes:

• We are developing a youth-friendly communications plan to raise awareness of the scheme across schools, local services, and the wider community.
• We are delivering C-card training to staff working across the borough to build confidence and consistency in the delivery and promotion of the scheme.  
• We are reviewing the distribution of outlets across the borough to enhance geographical coverage and ensure better access for young people.
• We are engaging with new potential outlets, including healthcare settings, schools, colleges, youth clubs, and community spaces.

You can find out more about the C-card scheme and sign up here.