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Romney House Luxted Road Downe Orpington BR6 7JX

24/04728/FULL1Full App (Any Operational Development)Refused
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Refused on 24 April 2025

Council decision: Application RefusedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing garage/office/workshop and cattery buildings. Erection of one dwelling (self-build and custom build) with associated parking and works.

Received
20 December 2024
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Darwin
Agent
Robinson Escott Planning
  1. Received20 Dec
  2. Validated7 Jan
  3. Consult.29 Jan
  4. Target4 Mar
  5. Decided24 Apr

Decided in 107 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Romney House Luxted Road Downe Orpington BR6 7JX. Bromley has handled 8,588 applications of this type. This one was decided in 125 days, 10 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 86 applications across Darwin. We hold 4,117 applications in total for the BR6 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
BR6 7JX
Application type
Full App (Any Operational Development)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 January 2025
Consultation expiry
12 February 2025
Consultation start
8 January 2025
Consultation end
29 January 2025
Neighbour consultation start
8 January 2025
Neighbour consultation end
29 January 2025
Last date for comments
12 February 2025
Target decision date
4 March 2025
Committee meeting
3 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Robinson Escott Planning
Agent address
Downe House 303 High Street Orpington BR6 0NN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
22 January 2025
Advertisement expiry
12 February 2025
Site notice start
10 January 2025
Site notice end
31 January 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13632172
Documents
24
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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

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