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St. Mary Cray Railway Station Sayes Court Road Orpington Kent BR5 2PQ

03/03091/TELCOMTelecoms Equipment Prior Approval(GPDO)Refused
Prior approval

Refused on 8 October 2003

Council decision: Refuse Prior ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

The erection of an 8m replica lamppost with one omni antenna internal to the structure together with an associated equipment cabinet of dimensions 1250mm x 650mm x 1250mm adjacent at ground level (CONSULTATION BY ORANGE LTD REGARDING NEED FOR APPROVAL OF SITING AND APPEARANCE)

Received
28 August 2003
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cray Valley East
  1. Received28 Aug
  2. Validated28 Aug
  3. Consult.19 Sep
  4. Target23 Oct
  5. Decided8 Oct

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at St. Mary Cray Railway Station Sayes Court Road Orpington Kent BR5 2PQ. Bromley has handled 79 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than Bromley's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 3,017 applications in total for the BR5 postcode area.

80% of all 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 2PQ
Application type
Telecoms Equipment Prior Approval(GPDO)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 August 2003
Consultation expiry
25 September 2003
Neighbour consultation start
29 August 2003
Neighbour consultation end
19 September 2003
Last date for comments
25 September 2003
Target decision date
23 October 2003
Decision issued
9 October 2003
Permission expires
9 October 2008

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Attn Richard Grist BSc (Hons) 1 Abbey Wood Road Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4YT

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
4 September 2003
Advertisement expiry
25 September 2003

Appeal

Appeal status
Appeal decided
Appeal result
Appeal Allowed

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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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© 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.

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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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