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208 High Street St Mary Cray Orpington BR5 4AX

22/04327/FULL1Full App (Any Operational Development)Refused
Full

Refused on 12 October 2023

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of two storey building providing 5x HMO units (Use Class sui generis) with associated access, car vehicle and cycle parking, refuse and recycling storage, landscaping works. Restoration of elevations of existing listed building Spring Hall and boundary railings.

Received
3 November 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Mary Cray
  1. Received3 Nov
  2. Validated12 Dec
  3. Consult.23 Feb
  4. Target6 Feb
  5. Decided12 Oct

Decided in 304 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 208 High Street St Mary Cray Orpington BR5 4AX. Bromley has handled 8,588 applications of this type. This one was decided in 343 days, 41 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the St Mary Cray conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across St Mary Cray. We hold 3,017 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 4AX
Application type
Full App (Any Operational Development)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 December 2022
Consultation expiry
23 February 2023
Consultation start
2 February 2023
Consultation end
23 February 2023
Neighbour consultation start
12 December 2022
Neighbour consultation end
2 January 2023
Last date for comments
23 February 2023
Target decision date
6 February 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
UrbanDevelopment
Agent address
40 De Frene Road London SE26 4AG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
21 December 2022
Advertisement expiry
11 January 2023
Site notice start
15 December 2022
Site notice end
9 January 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11658403
Documents
59
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: St. Mary Cray
  • Listed building: Grade II: Spring HallOn this 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 (20)

flood storage 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, 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.

Source: Bromley

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