Duke Youth Centre Park Road Orpington BR5 4AS

24/03840/FULL1Full App (Any Operational Development)Approved

Full

Approved on 18 March 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Demolition of the existing building and outbuildings, and construction of a new single-storey, purpose-built education building for alternative educational provision (Use Class F1), with associated hard and soft landscaping works.

Received: 14 October 2024
Decision level: Planning committee
Council: London Borough of Bromley
Ward: St Mary Cray
Agent: Pellings LLP

ReceivedReceived14 Oct
ValidatedValidated26 Nov
Consult.Consultation12 Feb
TargetTarget Date21 Jan
DecidedDecided18 Mar

Decided in 112 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Duke Youth Centre Park Road Orpington BR5 4AS. Bromley has handled 8,588 applications of this type. This one was decided in 155 days, 14 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the St Mary Cray conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. 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 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 4AS
Application type: Full App (Any Operational Development)
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 26 November 2024
Consultation expiry: 12 February 2025
Consultation start: 22 January 2025
Consultation end: 12 February 2025
Neighbour consultation start: 26 November 2024
Neighbour consultation end: 17 December 2024
Last date for comments: 12 February 2025
Target decision date: 21 January 2025
Committee meeting: 6 March 2025
Permission expires: 18 March 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent: Pellings LLP
Agent address: 24 Widmore Road Bromley BR1 1RY

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 4 December 2024
Advertisement expiry: 25 December 2024
Site notice start: 9 December 2024
Site notice end: 30 December 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-13475190
Documents: 39
Constraints: 10

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: St. Mary Cray
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

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

Source: Bromley

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