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12 Zelah Road, Orpington, BR5 4JU

25/03495/NOTPrior approval Part 1 Class A.1(ea): Larger home extensionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 26 August 2025

Council decision: PRIOR APPROVAL IS NOT REQUIREDDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Single storey rear extension, extending beyond the rear wall of the original house by 3.938m, for which the maximum height would be 3.79m, and for which the height of the eaves would be 2.873m (42 Day Notification for Householder Permitted Development Prior Approval)

Received
15 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Mary Cray
  1. Received15 Jul
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Aug
  5. Decided26 Aug

Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 12 ZELAH ROAD, ORPINGTON, BR5 4JU. Bromley has handled 2,558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than Bromley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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 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 4JU
Application type
Prior approval Part 1 Class A.1(ea): Larger home extension
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2025
Target decision date
28 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
2

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.

© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    9 Sep

    Single storey rear extension for which Prior Approval was granted under 25/03495/NOT

    ApprovedLawful development: Proposed useRelated25/04310/LDC
  2. 2025
    15 Jul

    Single storey rear extension, extending beyond the rear wall of the original house by 3.938m, for which the…

    This applicationApprovedOutline25/03495/NOT

Source: Bromley

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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