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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
17,033 approved · 4,504 refused · 610 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
165 - 167 High Street, Orpington, BR6 0LW
Received 17 Mar 2025GlaxoSmithKline, Langley Court, South Eden Park Road, Beckenham
Received 11 Oct 202319 Warnford Road, Orpington, BR6 6LW
Received 14 Jan 20229 Crofton Road, Orpington, BR6 8AE
Received 3 Nov 2021Thameside District Camp Site, Old Harrow Lane, Biggin Hill, Westerham, TN16 2HR
Received 9 May 2025North Lodge, Kemnal Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6LY
Received 16 May 20243 Oakleigh Park Avenue, Chislehurst, BR7 5PB
Received 13 Nov 202016 Crab Hill, Beckenham, BR3 5HE
Received 5 Jan 2023Well Hill Cottage Pump Lane Orpington Kent BR6 7PL, Sevenoaks District Council
Received 7 Oct 2021Telephone Exchange, Church Road, Farnborough, Orpington, BR6 7DB
Received 20 Dec 2022The Oaks , Manor Park, Chislehurst, BR7 5QE
Received 18 Sept 202076 Thicket Road, Penge, London, SE20 8DR
Received 29 May 202547 Cherry Tree Walk, West Wickham, BR4 9EE
Received 14 Jun 202461 The Avenue, Beckenham, BR3 5EE
Received 9 Oct 2020The Registry, 34 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, BR3 4TU
Received 8 Mar 202220 Daleside, Orpington, BR6 6EQ
Received 1 May 2025Land Adjacent Anerley Town Hall Anerley Road, William Booth Road, Penge, London
Received 17 Feb 2021390 Upper Elmers End Road, Beckenham, BR3 3HG
Received 18 Sept 2020Land Rear Of 165 And 165A, Copers Cope Road, Beckenham
Received 19 Feb 202168 Barnmead Road, Beckenham, BR3 1JE
Received 16 Jun 2023White Gates, 38 Wilderness Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5EY
Received 8 Mar 202415 Nelson Close, Biggin Hill, TN16 3LS
Received 18 Jan 20246 Bromley Avenue, Bromley, BR1 4BQ
Received 14 Nov 2023Sans Souci, Hawthorne Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2HN
Received 7 Oct 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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