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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
14,558 approved · 3,976 refused · 510 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Malmains Way, Beckenham, BR3 6SA
Received 20 Sept 20214 - 5 Market Square, Bromley, BR1 1NA
Received 23 Jul 202142 Victoria Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6DF
Received 5 Jan 202297 Southborough Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2EP
Received 17 Dec 202110 Lovelace Avenue, Bromley, BR2 8DQ
Received 6 Sept 202117 Faringdon Avenue, Bromley, BR2 8BP
Received 4 Nov 202152 Curtismill Way, Orpington, BR5 2JZ
Received 7 Feb 2022Land Adjacent 1 Vinsons Cottages, Hockenden Lane, Swanley
Received 29 Jun 2021Greensleeves, Woodlands Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2AP
Received 28 Dec 20212 Cambridge Road, Bromley, BR1 4EA
Received 5 Jan 202283 Newstead Avenue, Orpington, BR6 9RW
Received 7 Mar 2023192 Eden Park Avenue, Beckenham, BR3 3JQ
Received 19 Jan 20226 Wordsworth Road, Penge, London, SE20 7JG
Received 4 Mar 202259 Hayes Way, Beckenham, BR3 6RR
Received 9 May 2022The Mitre, 164 Croydon Road, Penge, London, SE20 7YZ
Received 24 Jan 202317 Palace View, Bromley, BR1 3EJ
Received 9 Aug 2022132A High Street, Beckenham, BR3 1EB
Received 8 Mar 202242 Gladstone Road, Orpington, BR6 7DZ
Received 26 May 202221 Nightingale Lane, Bromley, BR1 2SA
Received 12 Aug 202239 Stambourne Way, West Wickham, BR4 9NE
Received 30 Aug 202227 Hampden Road, Beckenham, BR3 4HD
Received 16 May 202222 Priory Avenue, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1JF
Received 13 Jun 202222 Birch Mead, Orpington, BR6 8LT
Received 19 Sept 202323 Sefton Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1RG
Received 17 Nov 2022Records 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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