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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
13,770 approved · 3,783 refused · 489 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jun 2021 to 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Home Farm, Kemnal Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6LY
Received 26 Aug 202232 Homefield Rise, Orpington, BR6 0RU
Received 12 Jun 202435 Birchwood Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1NX
Received 15 Feb 20234 Hayes Way, Beckenham, BR3 6RL
Received 11 Jul 202218 Slades Drive, Chislehurst, BR7 6JU
Received 11 Jan 2024Hayes Common Bowls Club, West Common Road, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7BY
Received 4 Jul 2023The Retreat, 30 Lower Camden, Chislehurst, BR7 5JA
Received 7 Jun 202353 Cedars Road, Beckenham, BR3 4JG
Received 25 May 202314 Prince Consort Drive, Chislehurst, BR7 5SB
Received 15 Sept 2021Dalmore House, Woodlands Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2AE
Received 27 Jun 2024Pratts Bottom Primary School, Hookwood Road, Orpington, BR6 7NX
Received 12 Aug 202213 Trinity Close, Bromley, BR2 8ND
Received 23 Aug 202211 Sheridan Crescent, Chislehurst, BR7 5RZ
Received 24 Mar 202312 Mulbarton Court, Kemnal Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6NE
Received 5 Oct 2021112 Shortlands Road, Shortlands, Bromley, BR2 0JP
Received 20 Jul 2021Fitzgerald Place, 66 The Avenue, Beckenham, BR3 5ES
Received 21 Mar 2024Rutland Court, Caveside Close, Chislehurst, BR7 5NL
Received 17 Jan 202326 Ravenscroft Road, Beckenham, BR3 4TR
Received 10 Jan 2024Car Park, Kevin Fenton Mews, Bromley
Received 7 Nov 20223 Lubbock Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5JG
Received 5 Mar 202497 High Street, Orpington, BR6 0LF
Received 30 Apr 2025120 Petts Wood Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1LF
Received 6 Oct 20238 Layzell Walk, Mottingham, London, SE9 4QD
Received 17 Feb 2022Wells House, 15 Elmfield Road, Bromley, BR1 1LS
Received 18 Sept 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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