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253 Poverest Road Orpington BR5 1GY

22/03556/FULL6Full App (Householder Development)Approved
Householder

Approved on 3 January 2023

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

The proposal includes: demolition of existing garage and erection of a two-storey side extension; roof alteration; loft conversion with rear dormer, Juliet balcony and rooflights in side rooflsope; elevational alterations at rear (new patio doors).

Received
9 September 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Mary Cray
  1. Received9 Sep
  2. Validated9 Sep
  3. Consult.30 Sep
  4. Target4 Nov
  5. Decided3 Jan

Decided in 116 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 253 Poverest Road Orpington BR5 1GY. Bromley has handled 8,588 applications of this type. This one was decided in 116 days, 9 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 77 applications across St Mary Cray. We hold 3,015 applications in total for the BR5 postcode area.

77% of full 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 1GY
Application type
Full App (Householder Development)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 September 2022
Consultation expiry
30 September 2022
Consultation start
9 September 2022
Consultation end
30 September 2022
Neighbour consultation start
9 September 2022
Neighbour consultation end
30 September 2022
Last date for comments
30 September 2022
Target decision date
4 November 2022
Decision issued
4 January 2023
Permission expires
4 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
SPA ArchitectsLLP
Agent address
2 Greencourt Road Petts Wood Orpington BR5 1QW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11536109
Documents
21
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Chislehurst Road, Petts WoodPart 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 (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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© 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

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2008
    24 Jun

    Single storey side extension

    ApprovedHouseholder08/02228/FULL6

Source: Bromley

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