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Unit 1, Mighty Distribution Centre, Cray Avenue, Orpington, BR5 3RX

23/03353/FULL1Full planning permissionWithdrawn
Full

Withdrawn on 29 January 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Storage of operational vehicles in connection with The Mighty Distribution Centre, and associated works including erection of welfare block, cycle store, refuse store, smoking shelter, handrails and paladin security fencing and gates, amended and resurfaced access route and ancillary infrastructure including external lightning columns and electricity transformers and electric vehicle charging equipment.

Received
4 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Mary Cray
Agent
DWD LLP
  1. Received4 Sep
  2. Validated11 Sep
  3. Consult.27 Oct
  4. Target6 Nov
  5. Decided29 Jan

Decided in 140 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Unit 1, Mighty Distribution Centre, Cray Avenue, Orpington, BR5 3RX. Bromley has handled 8,588 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 147 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There are no previous applications recorded 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 3RX
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 September 2023
Consultation expiry
27 October 2023
Consultation start
6 October 2023
Consultation end
27 October 2023
Neighbour consultation start
12 September 2023
Neighbour consultation end
3 October 2023
Last date for comments
27 October 2023
Target decision date
6 November 2023
Permission expires
29 January 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
DWD LLP
Agent address
6 New Bridge Street London EC4V 6AB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
20 September 2023
Advertisement expiry
11 October 2023
Site notice start
15 September 2023
Site notice end
6 October 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12380555
Documents
22
Constraints
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Source: Bromley

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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