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Y Buildings Bromley Civic Centre Stockwell Close Bromley

21/03120/RESPAOffice to Resi Prior Approval (GPDO)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 29 September 2021

Council decision: Grant Prior ApprovalPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of Class B1(a) office to Class C3 Residential to form 73 residential units. (56 day application for prior approval in respect of transport and highways, contamination, flooding, noise impacts, natural light to habitable rooms under Class O Part 3 of the GPDO)

Received
9 July 2021
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Bromley Town
Agent
City Planning Ltd
  1. Received9 Jul
  2. Validated9 Jul
  3. Consult.2 Aug
  4. Target3 Sep
  5. Decided29 Sep

Decided in 82 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Y Buildings Bromley Civic Centre Stockwell Close Bromley. Bromley has handled 2,558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 82 days, 4 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 169 applications across Bromley Town.

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

Application type
Office to Resi Prior Approval (GPDO)
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
73

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 July 2021
Consultation expiry
3 August 2021
Consultation start
12 July 2021
Consultation end
2 August 2021
Neighbour consultation start
12 July 2021
Neighbour consultation end
2 August 2021
Last date for comments
3 August 2021
Target decision date
3 September 2021
Committee meeting
5 August 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
City Planning Ltd
Agent address
40-41 Pall Mall 2nd Floor West Wing London SW1Y 5JG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
13 July 2021
Site notice end
3 August 2021

Additional information

Documents
49
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: The Old PalaceOn this site · +1 more
  • Brownfield land register: Bromley Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, BR1 3UHRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, conservation areas, 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

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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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