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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of London Borough of Bromley. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Bromley website
16,289 approved · 4,340 refused · 577 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Oct 2020 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
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Holmoaks House, 47 Bromley Road, Beckenham, BR3 5PA
Received 4 Oct 202325 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, BR3 4PR
Received 15 Apr 202480 Belvedere Road, Anerley, London, SE19 2HZ
Received 10 Oct 202427 Poyntell Crescent, Chislehurst, BR7 6PJ
Received 14 Sept 2021Shortlands Railway Station, Shortlands Road, Shortlands, Bromley, BR2 0JA
Received 5 Nov 20219 Crest Road, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7JA
Received 2 May 20221 Newton Court, Southlands Grove, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2DG
Received 22 Aug 2022David Lloyd Leisure, Stanhope Grove, Beckenham, BR3 3HL
Received 20 Jul 2023Wedgwood, Berrys Green Road, Berrys Green, Westerham, TN16 3AJ
Received 25 Apr 2025Eden Fields , Farthing Street, Downe, Orpington, BR6 7JB
Received 16 Feb 2021131 Birch Tree Avenue, West Wickham, BR4 9EQ
Received 25 May 20213 Grice Avenue, Biggin Hill, TN16 3EW
Received 24 Aug 2021293 Pickhurst Rise, West Wickham, BR4 0AH
Received 25 Feb 202266 Lovelace Avenue, Bromley, BR2 8EB
Received 7 Nov 202223 Glentrammon Road, Orpington, BR6 6DE
Received 28 Jun 2023198 High Street, Orpington, BR6 0JN
Received 11 Oct 202350 Rusland Avenue, Orpington, BR6 8AT
Received 28 Jun 2024208 - 212 High Street, Orpington, BR6 0JN
Received 23 Jul 2024West Wickham Library, Glebe Way, West Wickham, BR4 0SH
Received 23 May 202458 The Drive, Beckenham, BR3 1EQ
Received 21 Mar 2024125 High Street, Farnborough, Orpington, BR6 7AZ
Received 3 Jul 2024Sterling Rose House, 35 Widmore Road, Bromley, BR1 1RW
Received 25 Feb 20256 Rectory Place , Hawkwood Lane, Chislehurst, BR7 5PN
Received 21 Sept 2021Ashdown , Old Perry Street, Chislehurst, BR7 6PL
Received 4 Oct 2021Records 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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