Land Adjacent Hollies Hockenden Road, Cookham Road, Swanley

26/00722/LDCLawful development: Existing useRefused

Lawful development certificate

Refused on 1 May 2026

Council decision: EXISTING USE/DEVELOPMENT IS NOT LAWFULDelegated (officer decision)

The council did not publish a location for this application.

Proposal

Use of land and buildings as B8 storage and Distribution for an agricultural contracting business. LAWFUL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE (EXISTING).

Received: 24 February 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: London Borough of Bromley
Ward: St Paul's Cray

ReceivedReceived24 Feb
ValidatedValidated4 Mar
Consult.Consultation26 Mar
TargetTarget Date30 Mar
DecidedDecided1 May

Decided in 58 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at LAND ADJACENT HOLLIES HOCKENDEN ROAD, COOKHAM ROAD, SWANLEY. Bromley has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days longer than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 83 applications across St Paul's Cray.

73% of amendment 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

Application type: Lawful development: Existing use
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 4 March 2026
Consultation expiry: 26 March 2026
Consultation end: 26 March 2026
Target decision date: 30 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 26 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14729170
Documents: 10

Site constraints

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.

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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.

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3 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Bromley

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