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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
13,708 approved · 3,767 refused · 485 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Jun 2021 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Highlands, 9 Oldfield Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2LE
Received 9 Mar 2023Timperley, Sheepcote Lane, Orpington, BR5 4ET
Received 26 Jul 202315 Worlds End Lane, Orpington, BR6 6AA
Received 6 Jun 2023387 Upper Elmers End Road, Beckenham, BR3 3DA
Received 17 Apr 2023101 Malmains Way, Beckenham, BR3 6SF
Received 7 Aug 20232 Byne Road, Sydenham, London, SE26 5JE
Received 6 Jul 202321 Darrick Wood Road, Orpington, BR6 8AN
Received 31 Jul 202310 Longbury Drive, Orpington, BR5 2JU
Received 22 May 202366 Sparrow Drive, Orpington, BR5 1RZ
Received 19 Jun 202373 Clarendon Way, Chislehurst, BR7 6RG
Received 24 May 202348 High Street, West Wickham, BR4 0SL
Received 21 Dec 202323 Chaffinch Road, Beckenham, BR3 4LT
Received 21 Jun 202369 Chelsfield Lane, Orpington, BR5 4HG
Received 28 Mar 202343 Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, BR3 3BH
Received 27 Jul 20237 Winchester Road, Orpington, BR6 9DL
Received 8 Aug 2023Westbury Cottage , Westbury Road, Bromley, BR1 2QB
Received 28 Mar 20232 Timms Close, Bromley, BR1 2GZ
Received 14 Oct 202489 Glanfield Road, Beckenham, BR3 3JT
Received 9 Feb 202495 Cudham Lane North, Orpington, BR6 6BY
Received 16 Oct 20233 Woodside, Orpington, BR6 6JR
Received 11 Dec 202339 Harwood Avenue, Bromley, BR1 3DX
Received 25 Sept 2023196 Croydon Road, Bromley, BR2 7AE
Received 9 Feb 202493 St James's Avenue, Beckenham, BR3 4HE
Received 6 May 2024Western Motor Works (Chislehurst) Ltd, Perry Street, Chislehurst, BR7 6HB
Received 13 Aug 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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