Fairtrough Farm, Fairtrough Road, Orpington, BR6 7NY
Proposal
Change of use of Agricultural Building to provide 2no. Flexible Class E business units (excluding creches, day nurseries, day centres and indoor sport or indoor recreation). (56 day application for prior approval in respect of transport and highway impacts of the development, noise impacts of the development, contamination risks on the site and flooding risks on the site, under Class R of Part 3 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended)).
- Received
- 18 November 2025
- Decided
- 11 February 2026 · PRIOR APPROVAL IS REQUIRED AND GRANTED
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Bromley
- Ward
- Darwin
- ReceivedSubmitted18 Nov
- ValidatedValidated18 Nov
- Consult.Consultation16 Dec
- TargetTarget Date16 Dec
- DecidedDecided11 Feb
Decided in 85 days (council typically 56)
This is an outline application for a change of use at FAIRTROUGH FARM, FAIRTROUGH ROAD, ORPINGTON, BR6 7NY. Bromley has handled 2,558 applications of this type and approves 77% of them, typically deciding them in 55 days. This one was decided in 85 days, 4 weeks longer than Bromley's median. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 84 applications across Darwin. We hold 4,069 applications in total for the BR6 postcode area.
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Planning constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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.
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© 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 2026-10-09. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.
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