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St Raphaels Residential Home 32 Orchard Road Bromley BR1 2PS

15/02145/FULL1Full App (Any Operational Development)Refused
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Refused on 12 May 2016

Council decision: Application RefusedPlanning committee

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Proposal

Demolition of existing care home and erection of a part one/two/three storey building with an additional storey of accommodation within the roofspace comprising 75 retirement living apartments (51x2 bed and 24x1 bed) with basement level ancillary facilities, parking for 52 cars (33 at basement level, 19 surface level), cycle parking spaces, refuse storage and landscaping.

Received
13 May 2015
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Bickley
Agent
Savills (UK) Ltd
  1. Received13 May
  2. Validated23 Jun
  3. Consult.16 Jul
  4. Target18 Aug
  5. Decided12 May

Decided in 324 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at St Raphaels Residential Home 32 Orchard Road Bromley BR1 2PS. Bromley has handled 8,588 applications of this type. This one was decided in 365 days, 44 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 2,801 applications in total for the BR1 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
BR1 2PS
Application type
Full App (Any Operational Development)
Scale / size
Large

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 June 2015
Consultation expiry
18 April 2016
Consultation start
25 June 2015
Consultation end
16 July 2015
Neighbour consultation start
4 April 2016
Neighbour consultation end
18 April 2016
Last date for comments
29 July 2015
Target decision date
18 August 2015
Committee meeting
12 May 2016
Decision issued
16 May 2016

Applicant and agent

Agent
Savills (UK) Ltd
Agent address
Ground Floor City Point 29 King Street Leeds West Yorkshire (Met County) LS1 2HL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
8 July 2015
Advertisement expiry
29 July 2015

Appeal

Appeal status
Appeal decided
Appeal result
Appeal Dismissed

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04175683
Documents
117
Constraints
8

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.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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