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36 Chelsfield Road Orpington BR5 4DW

25/00361/FULL6Full App (Householder Development)Refused
Householder

Refused on 2 May 2025

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Single storey side/rear extensions with canopies over front and side doors, loft conversion with rear dormer, side roof window and two front roof lights and construction of detached garage to rear garden

Received
31 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Mary Cray
  1. Received31 Jan
  2. Validated17 Feb
  3. Consult.14 Mar
  4. Target14 Apr
  5. Decided2 May

Decided in 74 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a loft conversion at 36 Chelsfield Road Orpington BR5 4DW. Bromley has handled 8,588 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across St Mary Cray. We hold 3,017 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 4DW
Application type
Full App (Householder Development)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 February 2025
Consultation expiry
14 March 2025
Consultation start
21 February 2025
Consultation end
14 March 2025
Neighbour consultation start
21 February 2025
Neighbour consultation end
14 March 2025
Last date for comments
14 March 2025
Target decision date
14 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
48 Beacon Hill Dormansland RH7 6RH United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal reference
25/00090/S78
Appeal status
Awaiting decision

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13736438
Documents
17
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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© 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.

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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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