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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
16,656 approved · 4,419 refused · 594 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
113 Petts Wood Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1JX
Received 23 Nov 202021 Lakeside Drive, Bromley, BR2 8QQ
Received 12 Jun 20239 The Glen, Orpington, BR6 8LP
Received 15 Dec 20216 Rolvenden Gardens, Bromley, BR1 2TN
Received 27 Mar 202418 Homefield Rise, Orpington, BR6 0RU
Received 11 Apr 202283 Lovibonds Avenue, Orpington, BR6 8EP
Received 24 Sept 202417 Chesterfield Close, Orpington, BR5 3PG
Received 3 Jan 20239 Jasmine Close, Orpington, BR6 8LQ
Received 5 Oct 2023150 Poverest Road, Orpington, BR5 1GU
Received 21 Mar 20238 Crown Road, Orpington, BR6 6JN
Received 8 Feb 202385 Mayfield Avenue, Orpington, BR6 0AG
Received 3 May 2021155 White Horse Hill, Chislehurst, BR7 6DH
Received 15 Oct 20201 - 3 Thesiger Road, Penge, London, SE20 7NQ
Received 8 Nov 20237 Hawthorne Close, Bromley, BR1 2HJ
Received 4 May 202236 Newbury Road, Shortlands, Bromley, BR2 0QW
Received 29 Jun 20224 Denbigh Close, Chislehurst, BR7 5EB
Received 21 Sept 202218 Everard Avenue, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7LR
Received 25 Apr 20225 Bridgewater Close, Chislehurst, BR7 6QU
Received 23 Mar 202311 Sherborne Road, Orpington, BR5 1GX
Received 7 Feb 202256 Sparrow Drive, Orpington, BR5 1RZ
Received 17 Oct 202411 The Chenies, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR6 0ED
Received 2 Sept 202410 Culverstone Close, Bromley, BR2 9DN
Received 10 Nov 2023148 Croydon Road, Beckenham, BR3 4DE
Received 29 Mar 20237 Lower Camden, Chislehurst, BR7 5HY
Received 14 Aug 2024Records 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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