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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
15,013 approved · 4,070 refused · 528 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Mar 2021 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Millbank House, 30 Meadow Way, Orpington, BR6 8LW
Received 28 Apr 202219 Sylvan Way, West Wickham, BR4 9HA
Received 19 Apr 20214 Anerley Station Road, Penge, London, SE20 8PT
Received 16 Nov 202143 Newbury Road, Shortlands, Bromley, BR2 0QN
Received 8 Jun 202236 Kedleston Drive, Orpington, BR5 2DR
Received 13 Jan 202336 Arne Grove, Orpington, BR6 9TT
Received 13 Jul 202371 Burnt Ash Lane, Bromley, BR1 5AA
Received 12 Jul 202335 Portland Road, Bromley, BR1 5BB
Received 20 Jun 20245 Yeovil Close, Orpington, BR6 8BT
Received 31 Mar 20256 Coates Hill Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2BJ
Received 6 Dec 202151 Sweeps Lane, Orpington, BR5 3PE
Received 26 Oct 202370 Goddington Lane, Orpington, BR6 9DY
Received 8 Nov 20238 Hassock Wood, Keston, BR2 6HX
Received 19 Jan 2024268 Upper Elmers End Road, Beckenham, BR3 3HE
Received 12 Feb 202512 Trenear Close, Orpington, BR6 9XT
Received 25 Mar 202512 Cudham Park Road, Cudham, Sevenoaks, TN14 7RE
Received 18 Feb 20221 Westbrook Drive, Orpington, BR5 4QB
Received 1 Sept 2022Land Outside London South East Colleges Bromley Campus, Bromley Common, Bromley
Received 4 Apr 2022239 Clock House Road, Beckenham, BR3 4LD
Received 11 Jan 2023Littlewood Farm, Jail Lane, Biggin Hill, TN16 3AX
Received 16 Nov 202213 Colesburg Road, Beckenham, BR3 4HP
Received 9 May 2023Land South Of Knockholt Railway Station, Sevenoaks Road, Halstead
Received 8 Feb 2024The Orchard, 1 Cricket Ground Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5HD
Received 10 May 2024Flat 59, Riverside Walk, The Alders, West Wickham, BR4 9PZ
Received 7 Jul 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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