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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
14,509 approved · 3,970 refused · 510 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 6 Sept 2022Old Town Hall, 30 Tweedy Road, Bromley, BR1 3FE
Received 4 Nov 2022164 Felstead Road, Orpington, BR6 9AF
Received 26 Feb 2025122 Hayes Lane, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 9EP
Received 1 Aug 202326 Coates Hill Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2BJ
Received 12 Aug 20225 Merlin Grove, Beckenham, BR3 3HR
Received 13 Jan 20238 Spencer Close, Orpington, BR6 9QZ
Received 1 Mar 202443 Colesburg Road, Beckenham, BR3 4HP
Received 13 Mar 20241 Blyth Road, Bromley, BR1 3RS
Received 1 Dec 2021Kingates Court, 43 Wickham Road, Beckenham, BR3 6NB
Received 17 May 202329 Woodside Road, Bickley, Bromley, Bromley, BR1 2ES
Received 20 May 20216 Downs Avenue, Chislehurst, Bromley, BR7 6HG
Received 20 May 202181 Addington Road, West Wickham, BR4 9BG
Received 23 Apr 202136B Chelsfield Road, Orpington, BR5 4DW
Received 17 May 202130 The Avenue, West Wickham, BR4 0DY
Received 1 Jun 202140 Hurstdene Avenue, Hayes, Bromley, Bromley, BR2 7JJ
Received 21 May 202118 South Walk, West Wickham, BR4 9JA
Received 11 May 202125 Woodland Way, West Wickham, BR4 9LR
Received 11 May 202111 Hawthorndene Road, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7DY
Received 24 Jun 20219 Jasmine Close, Orpington, BR6 8LQ
Received 6 Oct 2021Reflex Apartments, 1 Wheeler Place, Bromley, BR2 9GA
Received 10 Aug 202122 Elizabeth Way, Orpington, BR5 4BJ
Received 19 Jul 202110 Padua Road, Penge, London, SE20 8HF
Received 15 Sept 202112 Fairmead, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2JU
Received 3 Dec 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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