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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
15,217 approved · 4,108 refused · 535 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Raglan Primary School, Raglan Road, Bromley, BR2 9NL
Received 13 Feb 20243 Appledore Close, Bromley, BR2 9BZ
Received 12 Sept 202412 Dale Wood Road, Orpington, BR6 0BZ
Received 16 Apr 202144 Chelsfield Lane, Orpington, BR5 4HQ
Received 10 Nov 2021Flat 2, 152 Maple Road, Penge, London, SE20 8JB
Received 25 Jan 202216 St Paul's Wood Hill, Orpington, BR5 2SY
Received 6 Jan 2023105 Hillcrest Road, Orpington, BR6 9AG
Received 2 Apr 20246 Barnet Drive, Bromley, BR2 8PQ
Received 1 May 20251 Wagtail Way, Orpington, BR5 3NB
Received 2 Mar 202177 Newstead Avenue, Orpington, BR6 9RW
Received 11 May 2021111 Village Way, Beckenham, BR3 3NJ
Received 9 Sept 2021246 Chislehurst Road, Orpington, BR5 1NT
Received 13 Apr 20227 Eden Road, Beckenham, BR3 4AS
Received 17 Sept 202117 The Weald, Chislehurst, BR7 5DT
Received 20 Jan 20225 Wirral Wood Close, Chislehurst, BR7 5BJ
Received 5 Jan 2022178 Langley Way, West Wickham, BR4 0DT
Received 16 Oct 202352 Crofton Road, Orpington, BR6 8HY
Received 16 Apr 2025159 Charterhouse Road, Orpington, BR6 9EP
Received 2 Aug 2021Wickham Park Sports Club, Pickhurst Rise, West Wickham, BR4 0AU
Received 9 Feb 202223 East Street, Bromley, BR1 1QE
Received 14 Nov 2022Flat 1, Hadlow House, 9 High Street, Green Street Green, Orpington, BR6 6BG
Received 5 Sept 202217A High Street, West Wickham, BR4 0LP
Received 6 Apr 2023Garages Adjacent 2, Shrewsbury Road, Beckenham
Received 17 Sept 2024111 Poverest Road, Orpington, BR5 2DZ
Received 29 Mar 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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