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

11/01603/FULL2Full App (Change of Use Only)Approved
Full

Approved on 18 August 2011

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use from newsagents (Class A1) to Minicab booking office (Sui Generis) with radio antenna on roof (RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION).

Received
18 May 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cray Valley East
  1. Received18 May
  2. Validated23 Jun
  3. Consult.27 Jul
  4. Target18 Aug
  5. Decided18 Aug

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at St Mary Cray Railway Station Sayes Court Road Orpington BR5 2PQ. Bromley has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 92 days, 5 weeks longer 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.

73% of amendment 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
Full App (Change of Use Only)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 June 2011
Consultation expiry
28 July 2011
Consultation start
6 July 2011
Consultation end
27 July 2011
Neighbour consultation start
27 June 2011
Neighbour consultation end
18 July 2011
Last date for comments
1 August 2011
Target decision date
18 August 2011
Permission expires
18 August 2014

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
7 July 2011
Site notice end
28 July 2011

Additional information

Documents
5
Constraints
6

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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