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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
13,933 approved · 3,851 refused · 491 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Wickham Manor Service Station, 171 High Street, West Wickham, BR4 0LU
Received 14 Jan 202512 Crossley Close, Biggin Hill, TN16 3BL
Received 25 Feb 202541 Hayes Lane, Beckenham, BR3 6RE
Received 17 Jan 20259 Hayes Mead Road, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7HR
Received 14 Apr 20257 Croydon Road, Keston, BR2 6EA
Received 10 Apr 202544 Charterhouse Road, Orpington, BR6 9EW
Received 26 Mar 202523 Oakleigh Gardens, Orpington, BR6 9PL
Received 30 Dec 202448 Harvest Bank Road, West Wickham, BR4 9DJ
Received 21 Oct 2024St Marys Church, St Mary's Avenue, Shortlands, Bromley
Received 15 Mar 2023144A High Street, Penge, London, SE20 7EU
Received 29 Sept 20221 Boscobel Close, Bromley, BR1 2BF
Received 20 Feb 20253 Oaklands Avenue, West Wickham, BR4 9LE
Received 31 Jul 202313 Forest Drive, Keston, BR2 6EE
Received 24 May 202436 Wilberforce Court, Holwood Estate, Westerham Road, Keston, BR2 6HU
Received 13 Jan 202329C Chesterfield Close, Orpington, BR5 3PG
Received 13 Jun 2023Merlewood Lodge, Merlewood Drive, Chislehurst, BR7 5LQ
Received 8 Aug 2024103 Kenwood Drive, Beckenham, BR3 6RA
Received 5 Dec 20224 Marke Close, Keston, BR2 6EX
Received 3 Oct 20223 Christ Church Road, Beckenham, BR3 3LE
Received 20 Jul 2023Land North Of 1 Park Hill, Southborough Road, Bickley, Bromley
Received 3 Nov 202338 Woodclyffe Drive, Chislehurst, BR7 5NT
Received 21 Sept 202113 Prince Consort Drive, Chislehurst, BR7 5SB
Received 18 Feb 2022112 St Paul's Wood Hill, Orpington, BR5 2SR
Received 10 Sept 202116 Kingsway, West Wickham, BR4 9JF
Received 15 Oct 2021Records 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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