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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
13,797 approved · 3,789 refused · 489 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Street Record, Waratah Drive, Chislehurst
Received 17 Feb 2022Land At Junction With Crofton Road, Park Avenue, Farnborough, Orpington
Received 14 Sept 202217 Cheyne Park Drive, West Wickham, BR4 9LQ
Received 31 Aug 202327 Cedar Road, Bromley, BR1 3BY
Received 11 Jul 202255 Porthallow Close, Orpington, BR6 9XU
Received 16 Aug 202251 Palace Road, Bromley, BR1 3JU
Received 22 Apr 2022Littleway, Bickley Park Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2AT
Received 21 Dec 202221 Yester Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5HN
Received 16 Jan 202365 Nightingale Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1BH
Received 22 Nov 202280 Friar Road, Orpington, BR5 2BP
Received 6 Feb 202392 Kynaston Road, Bromley, BR1 5AW
Received 5 Oct 2022272 Repton Road, Orpington, BR6 9JE
Received 26 Jan 202330 Spring Shaw Road, Orpington, BR5 2RH
Received 17 Nov 2023The Mobile Home, Littlewood Farm, Jail Lane, Biggin Hill, TN16 3AX
Received 20 Dec 202223 Anerley Road, Penge, London, SE19 2AS
Received 23 Jan 202336 Limewood Close, Beckenham, BR3 3XW
Received 6 Feb 202312 Thorpe Close, Orpington, BR6 9RG
Received 1 Feb 202351 Nightingale Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1BH
Received 16 Jun 20232 Marwell Close, West Wickham, BR4 9QR
Received 23 Mar 202384 High Street, Bromley, BR1 1EY
Received 6 Mar 202324B Addington Road, West Wickham, BR4 9BS
Received 14 Jul 202388 Plaistow Lane, Bromley, BR1 3JE
Received 10 May 2023120 Petts Wood Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1LF
Received 22 May 2023169 Crofton Road, Orpington, BR6 8JB
Received 20 Jul 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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