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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
14,530 approved · 3,970 refused · 510 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Apr 2021 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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43 Hillview Road, Orpington, BR6 0SE
Received 29 Aug 202216 Starts Hill Road, Orpington, BR6 7AP
Received 27 Apr 202258 Harwood Avenue, Bromley, BR1 3DU
Received 13 Jun 202244 Station Approach, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7EJ
Received 12 Jul 202273 Dunkery Road, Mottingham, London, SE9 4HY
Received 12 Sept 202247 Barnmead Road, Beckenham, BR3 1JF
Received 22 Jul 202277 Wickham Way, Beckenham, BR3 3AH
Received 30 May 20228 Hillcrest Road, Bromley, BR1 4SB
Received 16 Jun 20222 Winchester Road, Shortlands, Bromley, BR2 0PZ
Received 23 Nov 202250 Midfield Way, Orpington, BR5 2QL
Received 17 Oct 20237 The Gardens, Beckenham, BR3 5PH
Received 28 Sept 202334 Overhill Way, Beckenham, BR3 6SW
Received 27 Oct 202229 Pickhurst Mead, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7QP
Received 5 Dec 20222 Uplands, Beckenham, BR3 3NB
Received 25 Oct 20221 Wagtail Way, Orpington, BR5 3NB
Received 10 Feb 2023147 Copers Cope Road, Beckenham, BR3 1NZ
Received 11 Nov 20228 Midfield Way, Orpington, BR5 2QJ
Received 24 Jan 20231 - 3 Station Approach, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7EQ
Received 20 May 2022Nugent Shopping Park, Cray Avenue, Orpington, BR5 3RP
Received 5 Apr 202312 Poyntell Crescent, Chislehurst, BR7 6PJ
Received 4 Apr 202314 Hayes Court, 116 West Common Road, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7EG
Received 5 May 202323 Orchard Road, Bromley, BR1 2PR
Received 13 Apr 2023Rear Of 8, Marion Crescent, Orpington
Received 28 Apr 20231 Kelsey Way, Beckenham, BR3 3LP
Received 10 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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