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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
17,353 approved · 4,567 refused · 622 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jul 2020 to 30 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Oaklands, Kemnal Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6LZ
Received 13 Apr 202199 Northlands Avenue, Orpington, BR6 9LU
Received 12 Feb 202130 Romany Rise, Orpington, BR5 1HQ
Received 7 Sept 202146 Camden Park Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5HF
Received 18 Oct 2021123 Framlingham Crescent, Mottingham, London, SE9 4AJ
Received 21 Jun 20218 Linden Grove, Penge, London, SE26 5PH
Received 18 Feb 202153 Leaves Green Road, Keston, BR2 6DE
Received 5 Nov 202010 Crossways Road, Beckenham, BR3 3JP
Received 3 Mar 202152 Durban Road, Beckenham, BR3 4EZ
Received 19 Jul 202110 Avebury Road, Orpington, BR6 9SB
Received 4 Oct 202226 Ravenscroft Road, Beckenham, BR3 4TR
Received 2 May 2023Elm Cottage, High Elms Road, Downe, Orpington, BR6 7JN
Received 7 Mar 2025186 Anerley Road, Penge, London, SE20 8BL
Received 20 Mar 202514 Prince Consort Drive, Chislehurst, BR7 5SB
Received 15 Sept 2021Walsingham Cottage, Manor Park, Chislehurst, BR7 5QE
Received 13 Mar 2024Park Keep, Abbey Park, Beckenham, BR3 1PU
Received 21 Feb 2023Track Pavilion, Norman Park, Hayes Lane, Hayes, Bromley
Received 9 Mar 202182 Kingswood Avenue, Shortlands, Bromley, BR2 0NP
Received 29 Jul 202423 Foxfield Road, Orpington, BR6 8EE
Received 19 Nov 202166 Madeira Avenue, Bromley, BR1 4AS
Received 15 Dec 2022Lyndhurst, Bickley Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2NF
Received 23 Jun 202324 Goddington Chase, Orpington, BR6 9EA
Received 14 May 2025Waitrose Ltd , 1 Southend Road, Beckenham, BR3 1SD
Received 1 Feb 2021304 Pickhurst Lane, West Wickham, BR4 0HT
Received 14 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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