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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
13,608 approved · 3,745 refused · 482 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Jun 2021 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Chesham House, 30 Wilderness Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5EY
Received 4 Apr 202241 Towncourt Crescent, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1PH
Received 13 Dec 202240 Patterson Road, Anerley, London, SE19 2LD
Received 5 Oct 202231 Barfield Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2HR
Received 24 Jan 2023School House, Overbury Avenue, Beckenham
Received 14 Oct 202210 Warren Drive, Orpington, BR6 6EX
Received 13 Dec 202221 Cowper Road, Bromley, BR2 9RT
Received 28 Apr 202361 Pine Avenue, West Wickham, BR4 0LN
Received 11 Nov 202248 Walden Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5DL
Received 6 Feb 202314 Newing Green, Bromley, BR1 2TD
Received 10 Mar 202335 Westhurst Drive, Chislehurst, BR7 6HS
Received 3 Jan 2023Redcote, Sevenoaks Road, Pratts Bottom, Orpington, BR6 7SE
Received 8 Nov 202218 Oak Tree Gardens, Bromley, BR1 5BH
Received 5 Jan 202382 Queensway, West Wickham, BR4 9DY
Received 17 Jul 202343 Copers Cope Road, Beckenham, BR3 1NJ
Received 28 Jun 202353 Chislehurst Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5NP
Received 22 Feb 202329 Great Thrift, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1NE
Received 7 Jul 202313 Edward Road, Bromley, BR1 3NG
Received 22 May 2023Pinehurst, Church Approach, Cudham, Sevenoaks, TN14 7QF
Received 3 Apr 20238 St Francis Close, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1QF
Received 26 Jul 202353 Merlin Grove, Beckenham, BR3 3HR
Received 15 Aug 202340 Foxbury Drive, Orpington, BR6 6EL
Received 15 Mar 202377 Cudham Lane North, Orpington, BR6 6BY
Received 3 Jul 202341 Sherwood Way, West Wickham, BR4 9PB
Received 17 Apr 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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