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

06/00314/FULL1Full App (Any Operational Development)Approved
Full

Approved on 18 August 2006

Council decision: Permission Subject to Legal AgreementPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion of former police station and erection of 2 three storey blocks and 1 four storey block with ground level car parking comprising 15 one bedroom 6 two bedroom and 8 three bedroom flats with 32 car parking spaces and associated works (High Street and Mountfield Way frontages)

Received
19 January 2006
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Cray Valley East
  1. Received19 Jan
  2. Validated19 Jan
  3. Consult.24 Feb
  4. Target16 Mar
  5. Decided18 Aug

Decided in 211 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a new dwelling 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 211 days, 22 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
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 January 2006
Consultation expiry
4 April 2006
Consultation start
3 February 2006
Consultation end
24 February 2006
Neighbour consultation start
14 March 2006
Neighbour consultation end
4 April 2006
Last date for comments
4 April 2006
Target decision date
16 March 2006
Committee meeting
6 April 2006
Permission expires
18 August 2011

Applicant and agent

Agent address
81 High Street Farnborough Village Kent BR6 7BB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
9 February 2006
Advertisement expiry
2 March 2006

Additional information

Documents
35
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: St. Mary CrayPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Durley HouseOn or next to this site
  • 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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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2006
    19 Jan

    Conversion of former police station and erection of 2 three storey blocks and 1 four storey block with ground…

    This applicationPermission Subject to Legal AgreementFull06/00314/FULL1
  2. 2006
    19 Jan

    Demolition of detached building(CONSERVATION AREA CONSENT)

    ApprovedConservation Area ConsentFiled alongside06/00572/CAC

Source: Bromley

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