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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for London Borough of Bromley. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
8,078 approved · 2,356 refused · 267 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Mar 2023 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
HARRIS PRIMARY ACADEMY BECKENHAM GREEN, BROMLEY ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 5JG
Received 27 Jun 2025105 FOXGROVE ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 5DA
Received 27 Jun 2025SPRING LODGE, ELIZABETH WAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 4BH
Received 27 Jun 202512 CROSSLEY CLOSE, BIGGIN HILL, WESTERHAM, TN16 3BL
Received 27 Jun 2025243 to 249, Beckenham Road, Beckenham, BR3 4RP
Received 27 Jun 202530, High Street, Chislehurst, BR7 5AN
Received 27 Jun 202537 PICKHURST PARK, BROMLEY, BR2 0UE
Received 27 Jun 202543 Copers Cope Road, Beckenham, BR3 1NJ
Received 13 Dec 20238 Century Way, Beckenham, BR3 1BY
Received 18 Oct 2024St Francis Church, Greencourt Road, Petts Wood, Orpington
Received 13 Aug 2024185 Elmers End Road, Beckenham, BR3 4EH
Received 28 May 202526 Hamlet Road, Anerley, London, SE19 2AW
Received 11 Apr 202329 Hayes Lane, Beckenham, BR3 6QS
Received 4 Sept 2023Longmead, Mottingham Lane, Mottingham, London, SE9 4RW
Received 15 Jan 2024144 High Street, Penge, London, SE20 7EU
Received 14 Jul 202339 Broadoaks Way, Bromley, BR2 0UA
Received 11 Apr 20234 Woodbastwick Road, Sydenham, London, SE26 5LQ
Received 27 Mar 202314 Southbourne, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7NJ
Received 17 Apr 202345 Clovelly Way, Orpington, BR6 0WD
Received 26 May 202389 Hayes Way, Beckenham, BR3 6RR
Received 26 Apr 2023173 Farnaby Road, Bromley, BR2 0BA
Received 14 Apr 2023106 West Common Road, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7BY
Received 15 Aug 202333 Crossway, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1PF
Received 14 Aug 2023Former Lubbock House, 1 Northolme Rise, Orpington, BR6 9RF
Received 10 May 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for London Borough of Bromley, 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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