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Royal Albert 127 Lower Road Orpington BR5 4AJ

14/00984/FULL1Full App (Any Operational Development)Approved
Full

Approved on 14 August 2014

Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Conversion of existing public house (Class A4) to 4 one-bedroom flats and 2 two-bedroom flats (Class C3); formation of two roof terraces to proposed first floor flats; formation of lightwell, steps and subterranean garden area for proposed lower ground floor flat; and provision of ground floor communal refuse store

Received
13 March 2014
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Cray Valley East
Agent
Burgess Mean Architects
  1. Received13 Mar
  2. Validated14 Mar
  3. Consult.14 Apr
  4. Target9 May
  5. Decided14 Aug

Decided in 153 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Royal Albert 127 Lower Road Orpington BR5 4AJ. Bromley has handled 8,588 applications of this type. This one was decided in 154 days, 14 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.

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 4AJ
Application type
Full App (Any Operational Development)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 March 2014
Consultation expiry
23 April 2014
Consultation start
24 March 2014
Consultation end
14 April 2014
Neighbour consultation start
24 March 2014
Neighbour consultation end
14 April 2014
Last date for comments
28 April 2014
Target decision date
9 May 2014
Committee meeting
14 August 2014
Decision issued
21 August 2014
Permission expires
21 August 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent
Burgess Mean Architects
Agent address
Unit 1 The Warehouse 12 Ravensbury Terrace London SW18 4RL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
2 April 2014
Advertisement expiry
23 April 2014

Additional information

Documents
12
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2014
    24 Nov

    Details of conditions submitted in relation to planning permission ref: 14/00984

    PendingDischarge of conditionsFiled alongside14/00984/CONDIT
  2. 2014
    13 Mar

    Conversion of existing public house (Class A4) to 4 one-bedroom flats and 2 two-bedroom flats (Class C3)…

    This applicationApprovedFull14/00984/FULL1

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