48-56 High Street Orpington Kent BR6 0JH
Refused on 17 January 2002
Council decision: Application RefusedPlanning committee
Proposal
Detached three/four storey building for sheltered accommodation comprising 15 two bedroom and 9 one bedroom flats, communal lounge, guest suite, access road and 19 car parking spaces
- Received
- 16 October 2001
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- London Borough of Bromley
- Ward
- St Mary Cray
- ReceivedReceived16 Oct
- ValidatedValidated16 Oct
- Consult.Consultation30 Nov
- TargetTarget Date11 Dec
- DecidedDecided17 Jan
Decided in 93 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 48-56 High Street Orpington Kent BR6 0JH. Bromley has handled 8,588 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 5 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the The Priory, Orpington conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across St Mary Cray. We hold 4,120 applications in total for the BR6 postcode area.
77% of full applications at London Borough of Bromley were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- BR6 0JH
- Application type
- Full App (Any Operational Development)
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 16 October 2001
- Consultation expiry
- 7 December 2001
- Consultation start
- 9 November 2001
- Consultation end
- 30 November 2001
- Neighbour consultation start
- 29 October 2001
- Neighbour consultation end
- 19 November 2001
- Target decision date
- 11 December 2001
- Committee meeting
- 17 January 2002
- Decision issued
- 25 January 2002
- Application expires
- 14 November 2001
- Permission expires
- 25 January 2007
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- The Old Rectory Broad Blunsdon Swindon Wilts SN16 7DQ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 16 November 2001
- Advertisement expiry
- 7 December 2001
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: The Priory, Orpington
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 200311 Aug
Creation of temporary access and parking provision in connection with show flat for development allowed on…
RefusedFull App (Any Operational Development)03/03124/FULL1 - 20032 Apr
Details of landscaping, boundary enclosures and traffic noise protection scheme and soil survey pursuant to…
ApprovedDischarge of conditions03/01405/CONDIT - 200327 Feb
Electricity sub station
ApprovedFull App (Any Operational Development)03/00723/FULL1 - 20019 Jan
Detached three/four storey building for sheltered accommodation comprising 15 two bedroom and 9 one bedroom…
RefusedFull App (Any Operational Development)01/00061/FULL1
Source: Bromley
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