Riverview House Cray Avenue Orpington BR5 3RX
Refused on 30 November 2016
Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Erection of a two storey detached building to provide retail and office space for use by Walkers, builders merchants.
- Received
- 19 July 2016
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Bromley
- Ward
- Cray Valley East
- Agent
- Lioncrest Designs Limited
- ReceivedReceived19 Jul
- ValidatedValidated19 Jul
- Consult.Consultation10 Oct
- TargetTarget Date13 Sep
- DecidedDecided30 Nov
Decided in 134 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Riverview House Cray Avenue Orpington BR5 3RX. Bromley has handled 8,588 applications of this type. This one was decided in 134 days, 11 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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 3RX
- Application type
- Full App (Any Operational Development)
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 July 2016
- Consultation expiry
- 10 October 2016
- Consultation start
- 19 September 2016
- Consultation end
- 10 October 2016
- Neighbour consultation start
- 26 July 2016
- Neighbour consultation end
- 16 August 2016
- Last date for comments
- 10 October 2016
- Target decision date
- 13 September 2016
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Lioncrest Designs Limited
- Agent address
- 34 Drayton Avenue Orpington BR6 8JW United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 3 August 2016
- Advertisement expiry
- 24 August 2016
Appeal
- Appeal status
- Appeal decided
- Appeal result
- Appeal Allowed
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-05320529
- Documents
- 17
- Constraints
- 10
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: St. Mary CrayPart of the 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 (21)
flood storage 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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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Bromley
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