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79 High Street St. Mary Cray Orpington Kent BR5 3NH

02/02242/FULL1Full App (Any Operational Development)Approved
Full

Approved on 10 October 2002

Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Conversion of former police station to form 5 one bedroom flats; erection of three storey detached building at rear and fronting Mountfield Way comprising 12 one bedroom flats; erection of three storey building fronting the High Street comprising 5 one bedroom flats; creation of new vehicular access and repositioning of existing access on to Mountfield Way, provision of 22 parking spaces

Received
27 June 2002
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Cray Valley East
  1. Received27 Jun
  2. Validated28 Jun
  3. Consult.30 Jul
  4. Target23 Aug
  5. Decided10 Oct

Decided in 104 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 79 High Street St. Mary Cray Orpington Kent BR5 3NH. Bromley has handled 8,588 applications of this type. This one was decided in 105 days, 7 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the St Mary Cray conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 3,015 applications in total for the BR5 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
BR5 3NH
Application type
Full App (Any Operational Development)
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
12

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 June 2002
Consultation expiry
31 July 2002
Consultation start
30 July 2002
Consultation end
30 July 2002
Neighbour consultation start
10 July 2002
Neighbour consultation end
31 July 2002
Target decision date
23 August 2002
Committee meeting
10 October 2002
Decision issued
14 October 2002
Application expires
31 July 2002
Permission expires
14 October 2007

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: St. Mary Cray
  • Listed building: Grade II: Durley HouseOn or next to this site · +2 more
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Bromley

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