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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
13,893 approved · 3,830 refused · 491 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Sheepcote Farm Cottages , Sheepcote Lane, Orpington, BR5 4ET
Received 22 Jul 20212 Fairbank Avenue, Orpington, BR6 8JZ
Received 30 Aug 202118 Heatherbank, Chislehurst, BR7 5RE
Received 6 Dec 2021La Casetta , Blackness Lane, Keston, BR2 6HL
Received 2 Nov 2021188 Upper Elmers End Road, Beckenham, BR3 3HE
Received 1 Nov 202129 Downs Hill, Beckenham, BR3 5HA
Received 24 Nov 2021Orpington Hospital Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust, Sevenoaks Road, Orpington, BR6 9JU
Received 20 Dec 202152 Curtismill Way, Orpington, BR5 2JZ
Received 14 Sept 202124 Ethelbert Close, Bromley, BR1 1JB
Received 1 Nov 2021GlaxoSmithKline, Langley Court, South Eden Park Road, Beckenham
Received 24 Nov 20215 Chatsworth Close, West Wickham, BR4 9QS
Received 7 Jan 202266 Homemead Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR2 8BA
Received 30 Mar 202243 Selby Road, Penge, London, SE20 8ST
Received 30 Mar 202216 Valley Road, Shortlands, Bromley, BR2 0HD
Received 11 Apr 2022119 Pickhurst Lane, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7HU
Received 15 Feb 202224 Oakfield Lane, Keston, BR2 6BY
Received 10 Mar 20223 Woodlands Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2AD
Received 7 Jan 202222 Wagtail Walk, Beckenham, BR3 3XG
Received 30 May 202214 Jaffray Road, Bromley, BR2 9NR
Received 26 Jul 2022Redcote, Sevenoaks Road, Pratts Bottom, Orpington, BR6 7SE
Received 16 May 202317 Garden Road, Bromley, BR1 3LU
Received 4 Jul 202218 Wood Lodge Lane, West Wickham, BR4 9LZ
Received 10 May 202233 Cedars Road, Beckenham, BR3 4JG
Received 3 May 202346 Kenwood Drive, Beckenham, BR3 6QY
Received 4 May 2022Records 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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