16 Ashfield Lane, Chislehurst, BR7 6LQ

23/03975/PLUDLawful development: Proposed useRefused

Outline / PiP

Refused on 18 December 2023

Council decision: PROPOSED USE/DEVELOPMENT IS NOT LAWFULDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Single storey front and rear extensions and 1m high railing to front boundary. (PROPOSED LAWFUL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE).

Received: 12 October 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: London Borough of Bromley
Ward: Chislehurst

ReceivedReceived12 Oct
ValidatedValidated25 Oct
Consult.Consultation21 Nov
TargetTarget Date20 Dec
DecidedDecided18 Dec

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for an extension at 16 Ashfield Lane, Chislehurst, BR7 6LQ. Bromley has handled 2,558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 11 days longer than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the Chislehurst conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 289 applications across Chislehurst. We hold 2,672 applications in total for the BR7 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: BR7 6LQ
Application type: Lawful development: Proposed use
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 25 October 2023
Consultation expiry: 21 November 2023
Neighbour consultation start: 31 October 2023
Neighbour consultation end: 21 November 2023
Last date for comments: 21 November 2023
Target decision date: 20 December 2023
Permission expires: 18 December 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 17
Constraints: 9

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Conservation area: Chislehurst
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.

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

7 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Bromley

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