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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
14,486 approved · 3,968 refused · 510 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Apr 2021 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
45 West Street, Bromley, BR1 1RE
Received 9 Jun 2022Burnt Ash Heights, Pike Close, Bromley, BR1 5BN
Received 20 Nov 202348 Forest Drive, Keston, BR2 6EF
Received 24 Nov 20217 Woodbastwick Road, Sydenham, London, SE26 5LG
Received 17 Jul 20241 Foxhome Close, Chislehurst, BR7 5XT
Received 7 Feb 2024Flat 5 , 21 Maple Road, Penge, London, SE20 8HD
Received 19 Jul 2021Briars Place, Watts Lane, Chislehurst, BR7 5PJ
Received 12 May 202543 Downs Hill, Beckenham, BR3 5ET
Received 23 Nov 2022Street Record, Pine Glade, Orpington
Received 21 Apr 2022St John's Coptic Orthodox Church, 11 Dunbar Avenue, Beckenham, BR3 3RG
Received 7 Oct 2024St John's Coptic Orthodox Church, 11 Dunbar Avenue, Beckenham, BR3 3RG
Received 24 Oct 202434 Lawrence Road, West Wickham, BR4 9DB
Received 21 Jun 2021Flamingo Park Club, Sidcup By Pass Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6HL
Received 15 Jun 202246 Great Thrift, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1NG
Received 10 Jan 202442 Canon Road, Bromley, BR1 2SN
Received 22 Aug 202215 Ashmere Avenue, Beckenham, BR3 6PQ
Received 15 Mar 202285 Brownspring Drive Eltham London SE9 3JY, Greenwich Council
Received 20 Apr 20237 Staddon Close, Beckenham, BR3 4BP
Received 3 Mar 20222 Daleside, Orpington, BR6 6EQ
Received 5 Feb 2024The Glade, Mead Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6AD
Received 14 Mar 2023117 Pickhurst Rise, West Wickham, BR4 0AE
Received 15 Aug 2023Amorra, Holwood Park Avenue, Orpington, BR6 8NG
Received 31 Mar 2025Tall Timbers, Southill Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5EE
Received 2 May 202422 Wood Ride, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1PX
Received 31 Oct 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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