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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
15,439 approved · 4,164 refused · 546 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Jan 2021 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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14 Lockesley Drive, Orpington, BR5 2AH
Received 22 Aug 202331 North Drive, Orpington, BR6 9PG
Received 12 Feb 202524 Prescott Avenue, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1AF
Received 25 Feb 2025306 Crofton Road, Orpington, BR6 8NW
Received 29 Oct 202496 Worsley Bridge Road, Lower Sydenham, London, SE26 5FL
Received 4 Jul 2023342 Crofton Road, Orpington, BR6 8NN
Received 6 Feb 202471 Amherst Drive, Orpington, BR5 2ES
Received 22 Apr 2024113 Croydon Road, Penge, London, SE20 7TT
Received 13 Mar 2025131 Crofton Lane, Orpington, BR5 1HB
Received 10 Feb 2021103A Lubbock Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5LA
Received 30 Mar 2022312 Pickhurst Lane, West Wickham, BR4 0HT
Received 9 Nov 2022183 Worlds End Lane, Orpington, BR6 6AT
Received 28 Feb 2023South Lodge, Kemnal Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6LY
Received 29 Feb 202444 Chestnut Avenue, West Wickham, BR4 9ES
Received 18 Dec 20232 Bluebell Close, Orpington, BR6 8HS
Received 11 May 2022County Garage, 3 Commonside, Keston, BR2 6BP
Received 31 Jan 202310 Blythe Hill, Orpington, BR5 2RR
Received 5 Jul 202322 Castlecombe Road, Mottingham, London, SE9 4AT
Received 8 Apr 20245 Broadoaks Way, Bromley, BR2 0UA
Received 14 Oct 2024147 The Avenue, West Wickham, BR4 0EF
Received 25 Jan 202119 Leamington Avenue, Orpington, BR6 9QA
Received 25 Oct 2021195 Birkbeck Road, Beckenham, BR3 4ST
Received 14 Mar 2022Caravan 1, 148 Croydon Road, Keston, BR2 8HN
Received 8 Aug 2022339 Court Road, Orpington, BR6 9BZ
Received 15 Sept 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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