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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
15,658 approved · 4,215 refused · 557 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Dec 2020 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
97 Beaumont Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1JH
Received 11 Apr 2024Rosecroft Social Club, 269 High Street, St Mary Cray, Orpington, BR5 4AR
Received 30 Sept 202422 South Walk, West Wickham, BR4 9JA
Received 8 Feb 202161 Elmstead Lane, Chislehurst, BR7 5EQ
Received 13 Apr 202112 St Augustine's Avenue, Bickley, Bromley, BR2 8AG
Received 3 May 2021Paniscot, 22 Westleigh Drive, Bromley, BR1 2PN
Received 11 Oct 202336 Glebe House Drive, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7BN
Received 30 Apr 2024Street Record, Riverwood Lane, Chislehurst
Received 6 Jan 2025The Marmot, Kemnal Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6LT
Received 15 Apr 2022Worsley Grange, Kemnal Road, Chislehurst, BR7 6NL
Received 22 Oct 202149 Holbrook Lane, Chislehurst, BR7 6PE
Received 2 Feb 20211 Norlands Crescent, Chislehurst, BR7 5RN
Received 4 Oct 20249 Liskeard Close, Chislehurst, BR7 6RT
Received 23 Jun 202210 Yewdale Close, Bromley, BR1 4JJ
Received 8 Dec 202316 Berger Close, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1HR
Received 12 May 2023Parish Hall, Church Lane, Chislehurst, BR7 5PE
Received 2 Jan 202482 Stapleton Road, Orpington, BR6 9TN
Received 28 Oct 2021Flat 1, Cumberland Court, London Road, Bromley, BR1 3SQ
Received 28 Dec 2023Merlewood House, Merlewood Drive, Chislehurst, BR7 5LQ
Received 12 Jul 2024Ashbourne, 25B Holbrook Lane, Chislehurst, BR7 6PE
Received 14 Mar 202330 High Beeches, Orpington, BR6 6EF
Received 29 Apr 202152 Crystal Palace Park Road, Sydenham, London, SE26 6UG
Received 20 Sept 202127 Elmstead Avenue, Chislehurst, BR7 6EF
Received 17 Dec 202112 Kingsway, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1PR
Received 14 Oct 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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