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26/03054/OUT - Outline planning permission Valid

Proposal

Outline application for up to six dwellings with all matters reserved except means of access Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 01:03

Application progress

✓

Received

29 Jul 2026

✓

Validated

14 Aug 2026

Decision

Expected by 9 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 9 Oct 2026, from Bromley's recent new homes.

The consultation period closed on 4 Sept 2026.

Documents 8

Site constraints 7

Green belt: London

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Agricultural land, grade 2

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Archaeological priority area

An assessment or field evaluation may be asked for before ground works.

The council or Historic England considers archaeology likely here. A desk-based assessment, and sometimes trial trenching, can be asked for with the application.

Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Public transport access: PTAL 0 (very poor), TfL 2023, for the 100 m square; Priority habitat about 9 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI), Transport for London (public transport access levels, Powered by TfL Open Data, OGL v3.0, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Bromley
Application type: Outline planning permission
Received: 29 Jul 2026
Validated: 14 Aug 2026
Ward: St Mary Cray
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 9 Oct 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

Decision outlook

Day 56 of the 56-day target. Bromley usually decides new homes by day 56.

prediction

Day 560 days to the 56-day target

59%decided within 8 weeks

49%approved

115decided in the last year

Plota live figures for new homes decided by Bromley in the last twelve months, from validation. Bromley decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 7 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 4 Sept 2026

Bromley

Planning Authority Score

4.4/10

Below average

#178 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Major dwellings

Bromley ranks #143 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Bromley is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 79% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils

only 79% approved vs 90% nationally

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Bromley decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

77%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #276 of 296

79%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #280 of 296

66%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #143 of 296

33%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #72 of 296

63%

Minor dwellings approved

70 decided (1-9 homes)

88%

Major dwellings approved

8 decided (10+ homes)

50%

Change of use approved

42 decided

2,164

Total decisions

500 refused in the year to March 2026