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179 Main Road Biggin Hill TN16 3JR

23/03725/FULL2Full App (Change of Use Only)Refused
Full

Refused on 28 March 2025

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Part Change of use from use class E to residential (use class C3) to form 1x studio/bedsit to rear ground floor with private garden and parking space.

Received
2 October 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Biggin Hill
Agent
Plans by Park Ltd
  1. Received2 Oct
  2. Validated30 Nov
  3. Consult.21 Dec
  4. Target25 Jan
  5. Decided28 Mar

Decided in 484 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 179 Main Road Biggin Hill TN16 3JR. Bromley has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 543 days, 70 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Biggin Hill. We hold 2,971 applications in total for the TN16 postcode area.

73% of amendment 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
TN16 3JR
Application type
Full App (Change of Use Only)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 November 2023
Consultation expiry
25 December 2023
Consultation start
30 November 2023
Consultation end
21 December 2023
Neighbour consultation start
30 November 2023
Neighbour consultation end
21 December 2023
Last date for comments
26 December 2023
Target decision date
25 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Plans by Park Ltd
Architect profile
PLANS BY PARK LTD
Agent address
8 Ash Road Croydon CR0 8HU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
4 December 2023
Site notice end
25 December 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12494830
Documents
7
Constraints
5

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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