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15 Wickham Road, Beckenham, BR3 5JS

26/00815/NOTPrior approval Part 3 Class MA: Commercial, business and service uses to dwellinghousesApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 August 2026

Council decision: PRIOR APPROVAL IS REQUIRED AND GRANTEDPlanning committee8 conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use from commercial building (Use Class E) to form 3 flats (Use Class C3) with associated car parking, cycle storage and refuse provision under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) (56 day application for prior approval in respect of transport and highways, contamination, flooding, natural light to habitable rooms and noise impacts from commercial premises under Class MA).

Received
24 February 2026
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Beckenham Town & Copers Cope
  1. Received24 Feb
  2. Validated24 Feb
  3. Consult.10 Aug
  4. Target10 Aug
  5. Decided18 Aug

Decided in 175 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 15 WICKHAM ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 5JS. Bromley has handled 2,558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 175 days, 17 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the Chancery Lane, Beckenham conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 155 applications across Beckenham Town & Copers Cope. We hold 1,243 applications in total for the BR3 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
BR3 5JS
Application type
Prior approval Part 3 Class MA: Commercial, business and service uses to dwellinghouses
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 February 2026
Consultation expiry
10 August 2026
Consultation end
10 August 2026
Target decision date
10 August 2026
Committee meeting
13 August 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
167 days

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area+1 more
  • 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, 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.

Source: Bromley

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

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