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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
13,200 approved · 3,683 refused · 473 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Jul 2021 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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8 Shirley Crescent, Beckenham, BR3 4AZ
Received 26 May 20221 St Benjamins Drive, Orpington, BR6 7UX
Received 9 Jun 202266 Pope Road, Bromley, BR2 9QB
Received 12 Sept 20225B Maybury Close, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1BL
Received 30 May 202210 Goodmead Road, Orpington, BR6 0HX
Received 20 Jun 202242 Newstead Avenue, Orpington, BR6 9RL
Received 29 Jun 2022Holly Trees , Avondale Road, Bromley, BR1 4HT
Received 23 Nov 2022West Wickham Library, Glebe Way, West Wickham, BR4 0SH
Received 3 Oct 20226 Sherborne Road, Orpington, BR5 1GW
Received 26 Sept 202230 Dale Wood Road, Orpington, BR6 0BZ
Received 18 Oct 202210 Rushdene Walk, Biggin Hill, TN16 3UG
Received 16 Jan 202319 Beckenham Road, West Wickham, BR4 0QR
Received 28 Dec 2022420 Southborough Lane, Bromley, BR2 8BH
Received 23 Oct 202326 Meadow Way, Orpington, BR6 8LW
Received 8 Nov 202240C The Walnuts, Orpington, BR6 0TW
Received 7 Sept 20222 Larkspur Close, Orpington, BR6 9TH
Received 6 Feb 202328 Southcroft Avenue, West Wickham, BR4 9JX
Received 3 Oct 202224 Tudor Road, Anerley, London, SE19 2UH
Received 15 Feb 202367 Cudham Lane North, Orpington, BR6 6BX
Received 31 Oct 202223 Woodside Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2ES
Received 29 Sept 2022Suffolk House, Pines Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2AA
Received 7 Feb 202368 Southborough Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2EN
Received 21 Jun 202352 Crystal Palace Park Road, Sydenham, London, SE26 6UG
Received 21 Jun 2023237 Chislehurst Road, Orpington, BR5 1NP
Received 5 May 2023Records 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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