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70 High Street St Mary Cray Orpington BR5 3NH

20/01993/ASEMLEChange to Class D2 Prior Approval (GPDO)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 31 July 2020

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from retail (Class A1) to gymnasium (Class D2) (56 day application for prior approval in respect of noise, hours of opening, highways and impact on provision of services under Class J Part 3 of the GPDO)

Received
10 June 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cray Valley East
  1. Received10 Jun
  2. Validated10 Jun
  3. Consult.6 Jul
  4. Target5 Aug
  5. Decided31 Jul

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 70 High Street St Mary Cray Orpington BR5 3NH. Bromley has handled 2,558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the St Mary Cray conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 3,015 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 3NH
Application type
Change to Class D2 Prior Approval (GPDO)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 June 2020
Consultation expiry
9 July 2020
Consultation start
15 June 2020
Consultation end
6 July 2020
Neighbour consultation start
15 June 2020
Neighbour consultation end
6 July 2020
Last date for comments
9 July 2020
Target decision date
5 August 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
18 June 2020
Site notice end
9 July 2020

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08716353
Documents
13
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: St. Mary Cray
  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

Source: Bromley

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