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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
17,441 approved · 4,590 refused · 628 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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9 Grosvenor Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1QT
Received 14 Dec 202012 Benedict Close, Orpington, BR6 9TU
Received 21 Dec 202026 Forster Road, Beckenham, BR3 4LJ
Received 21 Apr 202123 - 24 Market Square, Bromley, BR1 1NA
Received 28 Jul 202152 Sutherland Avenue, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1RB
Received 2 Mar 2022West Wickham Leisure Centre And Car Park, Hawes Lane, West Wickham
Received 11 Mar 202419 Ancaster Road, Beckenham, BR3 4DZ
Received 22 Jul 202416 Elmstead Lane, Chislehurst, BR7 5EG
Received 15 Oct 2024Orpington Hospital, Sevenoaks Road, Orpington, BR6 9JU
Received 13 May 2024Yeoman House, 57 - 63 Croydon Road, Penge, London, SE20 7TS
Received 25 Mar 2021Maybrey Business Park, Worsley Bridge Road, London, SE26 5AZ
Received 22 Jul 2020Bankdam, St Georges Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2AU
Received 28 Sept 2023Land Adjacent Anerley Town Hall Anerley Road, William Booth Road, Penge, London
Received 9 Jun 2021White Gables, Mead Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6AD
Received 10 Mar 2023112 Oxhawth Crescent, Bromley, BR2 8BW
Received 31 Jan 2022Bellevue, 22B Park Farm Road, Bromley, BR1 2PE
Received 21 Aug 202318 Garden Road, Bromley, BR1 3LX
Received 30 Aug 20234 Lubbock Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5JJ
Received 9 Nov 202162 - 64 High Street, Chislehurst, BR7 5AQ
Received 12 Aug 202017 Allington Road, Orpington, BR6 8AY
Received 22 Oct 2020154 Sevenoaks Way, Orpington, BR5 3AE
Received 4 Oct 20211 Old Hill, Orpington, BR6 6BW
Received 13 Sept 2022309 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, BR3 4RL
Received 26 May 2023Crystal Palace Park, Thicket Road, Penge, London, SE20 8DT
Received 13 Dec 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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