59 High Street Orpington BR6 0JF
Refused on 12 February 2020
Council decision: Refuse Prior ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from A1 to Office Class B1(a) (56 day application for prior approval in respect of transport and highways, service provision within key shopping areas and impacts of noise from commercial and retail premises on the intended occupiers under Class JA Part 3 of the GPDO).
- Received
- 18 December 2019
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Bromley
- Ward
- Orpington
- ReceivedReceived18 Dec
- ValidatedValidated18 Dec
- Consult.Consultation9 Jan
- TargetTarget Date12 Feb
- DecidedDecided12 Feb
Decided in 56 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a change of use at 59 High Street Orpington BR6 0JF. Bromley has handled 18,666 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the The Priory, Orpington conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 114 applications across Orpington. We hold 4,117 applications in total for the BR6 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- BR6 0JF
- Application type
- A1/A2/Sui Generis to Office B1(a)
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 December 2019
- Consultation expiry
- 9 January 2020
- Consultation start
- 19 December 2019
- Consultation end
- 9 January 2020
- Neighbour consultation start
- 19 December 2019
- Neighbour consultation end
- 9 January 2020
- Last date for comments
- 9 January 2020
- Target decision date
- 12 February 2020
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-08373115
- Documents
- 8
- Constraints
- 6
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: The Priory, OrpingtonPart 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 (20)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Bromley
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