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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
15,778 approved · 4,250 refused · 561 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Dec 2020 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 The Dale, Keston, BR2 6HW
Received 4 Dec 202311 Hackington Crescent, Beckenham, BR3 1RY
Received 22 Aug 202446 Barnmead Road, Beckenham, BR3 1JE
Received 30 Sept 202215 Ruskin Drive, Orpington, BR6 9RP
Received 6 May 20213 Moselle Road, Biggin Hill, TN16 3HS
Received 19 Jul 2021Shirley, Holwood Park Avenue, Orpington, BR6 8NG
Received 23 Aug 2021Jessie, Hill Brow, Bromley, BR1 2PQ
Received 19 Jul 2022Redcote, Sevenoaks Road, Pratts Bottom, Orpington, BR6 7SE
Received 20 Jul 202367 Cudham Lane North, Orpington, BR6 6BX
Received 11 Jan 202126 Fairway, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1EG
Received 9 Apr 2021Campbell House, Bickley Park Road, Bickley, Bromley, BR1 2AY
Received 22 Feb 202220 Johnson Road, Bromley, BR2 9SN
Received 21 Feb 202216 Stanley Way, Orpington, BR5 2HE
Received 12 Oct 202223 Merlin Grove, Beckenham, BR3 3HR
Received 9 May 202392 Ravensworth Road, Mottingham, London, SE9 4LT
Received 21 Aug 2024Frankie & Benny's, Farnborough Way, Orpington, BR6 7DH
Received 28 Oct 2024211 Fair Acres, Bromley, BR2 9YG
Received 12 Feb 2025148 Worlds End Lane, Orpington, BR6 6AS
Received 17 Dec 202090 South Hill Road, Shortlands, Bromley, BR2 0RT
Received 2 Mar 2021Fallowfield, Downe Road, Keston, BR2 6AD
Received 18 Jun 202185 Castlecombe Road, Mottingham, London, SE9 4AS
Received 19 Oct 2021140 High Street, Orpington, BR6 0JS
Received 3 Aug 202211 Birkbeck Road, Beckenham, BR3 4SL
Received 11 Nov 202214 Camden Park Road, Chislehurst, BR7 5HG
Received 5 Jul 2023Records 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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