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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17,441 approved · 4,590 refused · 628 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Burnhill House, 50 Burnhill Road, Beckenham, BR3 3LA
Received 17 Nov 202218 Elwill Way, Beckenham, BR3 3AD
Received 22 Mar 2025Trees, Kemnal Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6LY
Received 21 Jan 202535 Heathfield Road, Keston, BR2 6BG
Received 25 Nov 2024103 Elwill Way, Beckenham, BR3 6RX
Received 18 Mar 2025208 - 212 High Street, Orpington, BR6 0JN
Received 22 Mar 2023Willow Grange, 23 Commonside, Keston, BR2 6BP
Received 21 Nov 2022St Nicholas Church, Church Row, Chislehurst
Received 20 Nov 20201 - 3 Station Approach, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7EQ
Received 18 Aug 20216 Stembridge Road, Penge, London, SE20 7UF
Received 24 Aug 202154 Baston Road, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7BE
Received 24 Nov 2021130 High Street, Penge, London, SE20 7EZ
Received 11 Oct 202210 Manor Way, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1NW
Received 18 Oct 20236 St Benjamins Drive, Orpington, BR6 7UX
Received 24 Jun 202447 Fox Hill, Anerley, London, SE19 2XA
Received 25 Nov 202412 Barkway Drive, Orpington, BR6 8PQ
Received 30 Sept 202067 Broxbourne Road, Orpington, BR6 0BB
Received 21 Apr 202319 Broadoaks Way, Bromley, BR2 0UA
Received 18 Mar 202138 Holbrook Lane, Chislehurst, BR7 6PF
Received 11 Feb 202514A Bromley Grove, Shortlands, Bromley, BR2 0LN
Received 6 Aug 20219 Viscount Mews, Chislehurst, BR7 5FD
Received 13 Aug 2024Saxbys, St Pauls Cray Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6QA
Received 24 May 20245 Cookham Dene Close, Chislehurst, BR7 5QW
Received 14 Sept 202024 Elwill Way, Beckenham, BR3 3AD
Received 26 Nov 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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