37 College Road, Bromley, BR1 3PU

24/01979/CUETC3Prior approval Part 3 Class MA: Commercial, business and service uses to dwellinghousesRefused

Outline / PiP

Refused on 10 July 2024

Council decision: PRIOR APPROVAL IS REQUIRED AND REFUSEDDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use of lower ground floor from Use Class E (Commercial, Business and Service) to Use Class C3 (Dwellinghouses) to form 1 residential unit, under Class MA, Part 3, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended) (56 day application for prior approval in respect of transport and highways impacts, contamination risks, flood risk, noise impacts, character or sustainability of a conservation area, provision of natural light to habitable rooms, impact on an area of general or heavy industry, impact of loss of services provided by a registered nursery or a health centre, fire safety impacts).

Received: 20 May 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: London Borough of Bromley
Ward: Plaistow
Agent: Vitco planning

ReceivedReceived20 May
ValidatedValidated20 May
Consult.Consultation4 Jul
TargetTarget Date4 Jul
DecidedDecided10 Jul

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 37 College Road, Bromley, BR1 3PU. Bromley has handled 2,558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Bromley's typical decision time. There have been 16 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 74 applications across Plaistow. We hold 2,801 applications in total for the BR1 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: BR1 3PU
Application type: Prior approval Part 3 Class MA: Commercial, business and service uses to dwellinghouses
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 20 May 2024
Consultation expiry: 4 July 2024
Consultation start: 29 May 2024
Consultation end: 4 July 2024
Neighbour consultation start: 29 May 2024
Neighbour consultation end: 19 June 2024
Last date for comments: 4 July 2024
Target decision date: 4 July 2024
Permission expires: 10 July 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent: Vitco planning
Agent address: 21 Leweston Place London, N16 6RJ

Planning decision

Statutory period: 45 days

Publicity

Site notice start: 13 June 2024
Site notice end: 4 July 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-13062117
Documents: 12
Constraints: 1

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.

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.

Associated applications

2024
21 May
Change of use of first and second floors from Use Class E (Commercial, Business and Service) to Use Class C3…
ApprovedOutlineFiled alongside24/01980/CUETC3
2024
20 May
Change of use of ground floor from Use Class E (Commercial, Business and Service) to Use Class C3…
ApprovedOutlineFiled alongside24/01978/CUETC3
2024
20 May
Change of use of lower ground floor from Use Class E (Commercial, Business and Service) to Use Class C3…
This applicationRefusedOutline24/01979/CUETC3

Planning history at this site

16 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Bromley

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