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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
16,961 approved · 4,490 refused · 609 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Sept 2020 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Street Record, Sunnydale, Orpington
Received 21 Sept 202310 Bromley Avenue, Bromley, BR1 4BQ
Received 10 Jul 2023107 Coniston Road, Bromley, BR1 4JA
Received 28 Sept 20205 St Clare Court , Foxgrove Avenue, Beckenham, BR3 5BG
Received 15 Oct 202112 Whitecroft Way, Beckenham, BR3 3AG
Received 20 Nov 2024Murco Petroleum Ltd, Chipperfield Road, Orpington, BR5 2QR
Received 13 Sept 2024141 Sevenoaks Way, Orpington, BR5 3AQ
Received 28 Jul 2023Homebase Ltd, Main Road, St Pauls Cray, Orpington, BR5 3HS
Received 1 Mar 20243A Orchard Green, Orpington, BR6 8AA
Received 15 Apr 2025Graylings, Camden Way, Chislehurst, BR7 5HT
Received 17 Mar 20251 Convent Close, Beckenham, BR3 5GD
Received 26 Oct 20231 Stour Close, Keston, BR2 6BX
Received 15 Jul 202270 Charterhouse Road, Orpington, BR6 9EW
Received 25 Aug 20232 Berger Close, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1HR
Received 8 Jan 202150B Chatterton Road, Bromley, BR2 9QE
Received 23 May 202311 Forest Ridge, Keston, BR2 6EG
Received 10 Sept 202430 Durham Avenue, Shortlands, Bromley, BR2 0QB
Received 18 Dec 202029 Whitehall Road, Bromley, BR2 9SG
Received 23 Nov 202357 Chatham Avenue, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7QB
Received 5 Feb 202428 Bruce Grove, Orpington, BR6 0HF
Received 22 Mar 202375 Birch Tree Avenue, West Wickham, BR4 9EQ
Received 23 Jun 202164 Birkbeck Road, Beckenham, BR3 4SP
Received 26 Jul 2023Land Rear Of 58 To 60 Anerley Park, Castledine Road, Penge, London
Received 10 Feb 202211 Sherwood Way, West Wickham, BR4 9PB
Received 21 Dec 2020Records 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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