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36 Highlands Road Orpington BR5 4JR

14/01525/HHPAHouseholder Prior Approval(GPDO)Approved
Householder

Approved on 20 May 2014

Council decision: Prior Approval Not Required

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Single storey rear extension, extending beyond the rear wall of the original house by 6.0m, for which the maximum height would be 3.0m and for which the height of the eaves would be 2.94m. (42 Day Notification for Householder Permitted Development Prior Approval)

Received
16 April 2014
Ward
Orpington
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated16 Apr
  3. Consult.15 May
  4. Target28 May
  5. Decided20 May

Decided in 34 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 36 Highlands Road Orpington BR5 4JR. Bromley has handled 2,558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 3 weeks quicker than Bromley's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 113 applications across Orpington. We hold 3,017 applications in total for the BR5 postcode area.

77% of outline 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 4JR
Application type
Householder Prior Approval(GPDO)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 April 2014
Consultation expiry
15 May 2014
Consultation end
15 May 2014
Neighbour consultation start
24 April 2014
Neighbour consultation end
15 May 2014
Last date for comments
26 May 2014
Target decision date
28 May 2014
Permission expires
20 May 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
95-97 Riverbank House Highstreet Orpington Kent BR5 3NH

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
7
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

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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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Source: Bromley

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