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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
16,545 approved · 4,404 refused · 594 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Merlewood, Maidstone Road, Sidcup, DA14 5BG
Received 8 May 20251 Birchwood Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1NX
Received 1 May 202549 Woodland Way, Petts Wood, Orpington, Bromley, BR5 1NB
Received 21 May 202119 Spring Shaw Road, Orpington, BR5 2RH
Received 14 Dec 20213 Lewis Mews, Chislehurst, BR7 5FJ
Received 10 Jun 2022134 Petts Wood Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1LF
Received 7 Apr 2025Car Park, Brindley Way, Bromley, Bromley
Received 21 May 2021Land Adjacent To 47, Sunningvale Avenue, Biggin Hill
Received 18 Oct 2021National Westminster Bank Sports Ground, Copers Cope Road, Beckenham, BR3 1NZ
Received 9 May 2025Five Oaks Stables, Layhams Road, Keston, BR2 6AR
Received 20 Jun 2023Prospects House, 19 Elmfield Road, Bromley, BR1 1LT
Received 1 Jun 2022124 - 126 High Street, Bromley, BR1 1EZ
Received 3 Mar 202276 Chalk Pit Avenue, Orpington, BR5 3JL
Received 14 Apr 202126 Letchworth Drive, Bromley, BR2 9BE
Received 12 Jan 202228 Silver Lane, West Wickham, BR4 0SQ
Received 1 Apr 2022Den Barn Farmhouse , Cudham Lane North, Orpington, BR6 6BZ
Received 1 Jun 202229 Maitland Road, Sydenham, London, SE26 5NN
Received 8 Jun 202341 Lancing Road, Orpington, BR6 0QS
Received 5 Feb 20249 Whitmore Road, Beckenham, BR3 3NU
Received 5 Feb 20252 Little Wood Close, Orpington, BR5 2LA
Received 11 Mar 202412 Malvern Road, Orpington, BR6 9HB
Received 26 Oct 2021Moorlands, Wilderness Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5HB
Received 15 Nov 202317 Roslin Way, Bromley, BR1 4QS
Received 19 Oct 202081 Glanfield Road, Beckenham, BR3 3JT
Received 18 Jan 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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