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Compass House 36 East Street Bromley BR1 1QU

21/03343/RESPAOffice to Resi Prior Approval (GPDO)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 15 September 2021

Council decision: Refuse Prior ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of Class B1(a) office space on first, second and third floors to Class C3 Residential to form 13 flats. (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
29 July 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bromley Town
Agent
Ubique Architects
  1. Received29 Jul
  2. Validated29 Jul
  3. Consult.25 Aug
  4. Target23 Sep
  5. Decided15 Sep

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Compass House 36 East Street Bromley BR1 1QU. Bromley has handled 2,558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the Bromley Town Centre conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 169 applications across Bromley Town. We hold 2,801 applications in total for the BR1 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
BR1 1QU
Application type
Office to Resi Prior Approval (GPDO)
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
13

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 July 2021
Consultation expiry
1 September 2021
Consultation start
4 August 2021
Consultation end
25 August 2021
Neighbour consultation start
5 August 2021
Neighbour consultation end
26 August 2021
Last date for comments
1 September 2021
Target decision date
23 September 2021
Decision issued
16 September 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ubique Architects
Agent address
Ubique Architects 11 Ashford House, Beaufort Court Sir Thomas Longley Road Rochester ME2 4FA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
11 August 2021
Advertisement expiry
1 September 2021
Site notice start
10 August 2021
Site notice end
1 September 2021

Appeal

Appeal reference
21/00234/S78
Appeal status
Appeal decided
Appeal result
Appeal Dismissed

Appeal history

3288234
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 23 November 2022Dev Type: Major dwellingsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
20
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bromley Town Centre
  • 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.

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Source: Bromley

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