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33A High Street Chislehurst BR7 5AE

21/03296/RESPAOffice to Resi Prior Approval (GPDO)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 17 September 2021

Council decision: Refuse Prior ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Class B1(a) offices to Class C3 (dwellinghouses) to form 4x one bedroom apartments. (56 day application for prior approval in respect of transport and highways, contamination, flooding and noise impacts under Class O of the General Permitted Development Order).

Received
26 July 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chislehurst
  1. Received26 Jul
  2. Validated26 Jul
  3. Consult.19 Aug
  4. Target20 Sep
  5. Decided17 Sep

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 33A High Street Chislehurst BR7 5AE. Bromley has handled 2,558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the Chislehurst conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 289 applications across Chislehurst. We hold 2,673 applications in total for the BR7 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
BR7 5AE
Application type
Office to Resi Prior Approval (GPDO)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 July 2021
Consultation expiry
19 August 2021
Consultation start
29 July 2021
Consultation end
19 August 2021
Neighbour consultation start
29 July 2021
Neighbour consultation end
19 August 2021
Last date for comments
19 August 2021
Target decision date
20 September 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Bluebell Cemetery Old London Road Halstead Sevenoaks Kent TN14 7AE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10066110
Documents
9
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Chislehurst
  • 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Planning history at this site

5 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    6 May

    Continued use of 4x residential flats LAWFUL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE (EXISTING)

    RefusedLawful development: Existing use26/01801/LDC
  2. 2025
    12 Nov

    Continued use of 4x residential flats LAWFUL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE (EXISTING)

    RefusedLawful development: Existing use25/05258/LDC
  3. 2025
    13 Jun

    Change of use from offices to residential for 4 x flats LAWFUL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE (EXISTING)

    WithdrawnLawful development: Existing use25/03115/LDC
  4. 2020
    30 Nov

    Minor material amendment under Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to allow variation of…

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)16/03534/RECON1
  5. 2020
    4 May

    Minor material amendment under Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to allow variation of…

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)16/03534/RECON

Source: Bromley

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