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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
13,965 approved · 3,856 refused · 493 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Westfield Road, Beckenham, BR3 4EU
Received 18 Jan 2022177 Wickham Way, Beckenham, BR3 3AP
Received 26 Jan 202210 Cheriton Avenue, Bromley, BR2 9DD
Received 29 Jul 2022318 Tubbenden Lane South, Orpington, BR6 7DN
Received 4 May 202246 Queens Road, Beckenham, BR3 4JL
Received 12 Aug 202283 Layhams Road, West Wickham, BR4 9HE
Received 3 May 202215 Westmoreland Road, Bromley, BR2 0TE
Received 23 May 2022111 The Grove, West Wickham, BR4 9LA
Received 30 Mar 202239A Somerville Road, Penge, London, SE20 7NA
Received 15 Aug 202220 Bushey Avenue, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1EP
Received 22 Aug 202215 Cedar Crescent, Bromley, BR2 8PX
Received 7 Sept 20222 Newing Green, Bromley, BR1 2TD
Received 31 May 202223 Birdham Close, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2HF
Received 28 Apr 202214 Birch Mead, Orpington, BR6 8LT
Received 5 Sept 202213 Mosyer Drive, Orpington, BR5 4PN
Received 18 Jul 2022201 Chislehurst Road, Orpington, BR5 1NP
Received 27 Jan 202341 Park Avenue, West Wickham, BR4 9JU
Received 26 Sept 2022St Nicholas Lodge, St Pauls Cray Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6QA
Received 24 Nov 202276 - 82 Station Road, West Wickham, BR4 0PU
Received 17 Feb 20233 Berens Way, Chislehurst, BR7 6RH
Received 15 Sept 202230 Malmains Way, Beckenham, BR3 6SA
Received 14 Oct 202295 Cudham Lane North, Orpington, BR6 6BY
Received 20 Sept 2022229 - 231 High Street, Orpington, BR6 0JU
Received 8 Feb 20233 Liskeard Close, Chislehurst, BR7 6RT
Received 23 Mar 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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