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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
15,284 approved · 4,118 refused · 539 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
23 Groveland Road, Beckenham, BR3 3PU
Received 3 May 202271 Burnt Ash Lane, Bromley, BR1 5AA
Received 9 Sept 202446 Cray Valley Road, Orpington, BR5 2EZ
Received 22 Jul 2021168 Birkbeck Road, Beckenham, BR3 4SS
Received 11 May 202284 Shirley Crescent, Beckenham, BR3 4AZ
Received 29 Nov 202218 Shirley Crescent, Beckenham, BR3 4AZ
Received 31 Aug 20233 St Johns Cottages, Maple Road, Penge, London, SE20 8HX
Received 29 Nov 202375 Plaistow Grove, Bromley, BR1 3PB
Received 20 Feb 202567 Hayes Lane, Beckenham, BR3 6RE
Received 1 Jun 202125 Summerhill Close, Orpington, BR6 9PX
Received 22 Feb 20215A Eccleston Close, Orpington, BR6 8BD
Received 8 Feb 20211 Maple Leaf Close, Biggin Hill, TN16 3JW
Received 23 Feb 202142 Broxbourne Road, Orpington, BR6 0BA
Received 14 Jul 202135 Crofton Road, Orpington, BR6 8AE
Received 16 Nov 2021152 Aylesford Avenue, Beckenham, BR3 3RY
Received 17 Nov 202156 Downs Avenue, Chislehurst, BR7 6HQ
Received 30 Mar 202247 Links Way, Beckenham, BR3 3DG
Received 23 Dec 2022121 White Horse Hill, Chislehurst, BR7 6DQ
Received 21 Dec 202319 Sylvan Way, West Wickham, BR4 9HA
Received 31 Jul 202411 Camden Park Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5HE
Received 20 Jan 2025651 Wickham Road, Shirley, Croydon, CR0 8EH
Received 16 Jun 202368 Chamberlain Crescent, West Wickham, BR4 0LL
Received 15 Mar 2021103 Crofton Avenue, Orpington, BR6 8DY
Received 25 Feb 202225 Crowhurst Way, Orpington, BR5 4BW
Received 7 Nov 2022Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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