Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
17,180 approved · 4,525 refused · 615 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
7 Dowding Road, Biggin Hill, TN16 3BE
Received 13 Oct 202138 Scotts Lane, Shortlands, Bromley, BR2 0LL
Received 15 Feb 20211 Station Hill, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7DJ
Received 13 Jan 20229 St Marks Road, Bromley, BR2 9HG
Received 27 Jan 202144A Foxgrove Road, Beckenham, BR3 5DB
Received 13 Apr 2021140A Blackbrook Lane, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2HP
Received 19 Oct 2021Flat 3, 70 Homefield Road, Bromley, BR1 3AL
Received 16 Mar 20235 Burlington Close, Orpington, BR6 8PP
Received 18 Jan 2024109 Towncourt Lane, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1EL
Received 31 Mar 2025Farmside, Hawthorne Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2HN
Received 23 Mar 20222 Station Cottages, Station Approach, Chelsfield, Orpington, BR6 6EU
Received 2 Dec 202210 Bromley Common, Bromley, Bromley, BR2 9PD
Received 21 May 2021Unit 1, Kangley Business Centre, Kangley Bridge Road, Lower Sydenham, London, SE26 5AQ
Received 23 Aug 2022The Old Jail, Jail Lane, Biggin Hill, TN16 3AX
Received 25 Sept 202391 Palace View, Bromley, BR1 3EP
Received 27 Jan 202354 Mayfield Avenue, Orpington, BR6 0AQ
Received 17 Jun 2024161 - 163 Main Road, Biggin Hill, TN16 3JR
Received 28 Oct 202418 Bevington Road, Beckenham, BR3 5LD
Received 30 Sept 2020Rothesay, Chelsfield Lane, Orpington, BR6 7RS
Received 5 Apr 2023The Rectory, Hayes Street, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7LH
Received 26 Jul 202436 Sylvan Way, West Wickham, BR4 9HB
Received 19 Nov 202430 Rowan Walk, Bromley, BR2 8QN
Received 5 Dec 2022Alexandra Junior School, Cator Road, Sydenham, London, SE26 5DS
Received 9 Oct 202411 Lakes Road, Keston, BR2 6BN
Received 29 Mar 2021Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage