Sheepcote Farm, Sheepcote Lane, Orpington, BR5 4ET
Refused on 22 May 2024
Council decision: PRIOR APPROVAL IS REQUIRED AND REFUSEDDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of Use of Agricultural Building to Class B8 storage and distribution (56 day application for prior approval in respect of transport and highway impacts of the development, noise impacts of the development, contamination risks on the site and flooding risks on the site, under Class R of Part 3 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended)).
- Received
- 29 March 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Bromley
- Ward
- St Mary Cray
- Agent
- Lambert & Foster (Bloomfields) Ltd
- ReceivedReceived29 Mar
- ValidatedValidated29 Mar
- Consult.Consultation8 May
- TargetTarget Date8 May
- DecidedDecided22 May
Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at Sheepcote Farm, Sheepcote Lane, Orpington, BR5 4ET. Bromley has handled 2,558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. 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 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
- BR5 4ET
- Application type
- Prior approval Part 3 Class Q: Agricultural buildings to dwellinghouses
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 March 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 8 May 2024
- Consultation start
- 16 April 2024
- Consultation end
- 8 May 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 16 April 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 7 May 2024
- Last date for comments
- 8 May 2024
- Target decision date
- 8 May 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Lambert & Foster (Bloomfields) Ltd
- Agent address
- Bloomfields 77 Commercial Road Paddock Wood Kent TN12 6DS United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 40 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 16 April 2024
- Site notice end
- 8 May 2024
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12922112
- Documents
- 12
- Constraints
- 8
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Green belt: Bromley
- 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, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.
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Source: Bromley
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