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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
14,540 approved · 3,973 refused · 510 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
38 West Street, Bromley, BR1 1RF
Received 27 Nov 2024Crystal Palace Park, Thicket Road, Penge, London, SE20 8DT
Received 16 May 202524 Hill Close, Chislehurst, BR7 6HY
Received 22 Jul 2021Huntington Place, Chislehurst Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5LE
Received 30 Jan 202316A Hayes Way, Beckenham, BR3 6RL
Received 7 Feb 2024St John's Coptic Orthodox Church, 11 Dunbar Avenue, Beckenham, BR3 3RG
Received 24 Jun 202421 Yester Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5HN
Received 17 Jan 2022Pound Cottage, 16 High Street, Downe, Orpington, BR6 7UT
Received 21 May 202523 Wickham Way, Beckenham, BR3 3AA
Received 28 Nov 20229 Wickham Way, Beckenham, BR3 3AA
Received 22 Mar 202417 The Drive, Beckenham, BR3 1EE
Received 24 Jan 202544 Ravenswood Avenue, West Wickham, BR4 0PW
Received 31 Mar 202544 Copse Avenue, West Wickham, BR4 9NR
Received 3 Mar 202512 Southlands Avenue, Orpington, BR6 9NZ
Received 8 Oct 202151 Vinson Close, Orpington, BR6 0EQ
Received 20 Apr 202214 The Fairway, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2JY
Received 10 May 2023Riverside, Main Road, St Pauls Cray, Orpington, BR5 3HQ
Received 5 Jan 2024Chelsfield Park Hospital, Bucks Cross Road, Orpington, BR6 7RG
Received 28 Aug 202438 Eldred Drive, Orpington, BR5 4PF
Received 6 Aug 20249 Davenant Place, Sydenham, London, SE26 6AT
Received 12 Jan 2022Oakhill House , 39 The Knoll, Beckenham, BR3 5JH
Received 1 Dec 202164 Oregon Square, Orpington, BR6 8BG
Received 10 Aug 2021101 The Avenue, West Wickham, BR4 0EE
Received 1 Jun 20222 Parkside Avenue, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2EJ
Received 15 May 2024Records 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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