All 33 applications Bromley registered from 1 to 7 October: eight flats on top of Cortland House in Penge, five barn conversions at Lone Barn Farm, a sensory garden at Perry Hall. Plus the week's decisions.

Bromley Council registered 33 planning applications between 1 and 7 October. Eight are prior approval notices, six are lawful development certificates, six are tree works in conservation areas and five are householder extensions. Three are worth a closer look, and five of the 33 are for the same farm.

The council’s register is a Salesforce site that will not open without JavaScript, so every link below goes to the PlanIt copy of the same record, which carries the reference, the description, the ward and the consultation date (PlanIt, Bromley). Applicant and agent names come from the council’s own register, read through its data service on 10 October.

The ones to know about

  • Eight flats on the roof of Cortland House, Penge. The application is for an “upwards extension to existing block of flats to provide 8 x additional residential flats with cycle parking and refuse provision” at Cortland House, Apple Yard, SE20 8FT, off Penge High Street. It is a full application with 21 documents, submitted through an agent. Comments close on 27 October and the scheduled decision date is 27 November (26/03856/FPA).
  • Five barns to five homes at Lone Barn Farm, St Mary Cray. Five separate prior approval applications, one per building, each seek “the change of use of an agricultural building to 1 dwellinghouse and associated operational development” at Lone Barn Farm, East Hall Road, BR5 4EZ. They use Class Q of the permitted development rules, under which the council checks that the building qualifies and then decides only whether its prior approval is needed on matters such as transport, noise, contamination, flooding and design, rather than weighing the scheme as a full planning application. All five have the same applicant and agent. Comments close on 27 October, with decisions due between 30 November and 1 December (26/03876/NOT, 26/03877/NOT, 26/03878/NOT, 26/03879/NOT, 26/03880/NOT).
  • A sensory garden at Perry Hall Primary School. The school on Perry Hall Road, Orpington, wants a sensory path “constructed from different textured and coloured materials with small sections covered by coloured archways”, activity boards, a sound tube, herb planters and a wooden gazebo for outdoor teaching, on land at the front of the school “for children with communication, social and sensory needs”. Comments close on 28 October (26/03865/FPA).
  • Potters Farm, Bromley Common. Two submissions discharge remediation conditions on the housing permissions at Potters Farm, Turpington Lane, one on the 2018 permission and one on the 2024 outline (18/04265/CON7, 24/03543/CON4).
Bar chart of the 33 planning applications Bromley Council registered from 1 to 7 October 2026 by type: 8 prior approval notices, 6 lawful development certificates, 6 trees in a conservation area, 5 householder, 4 condition details, 3 full applications and 1 non-material amendment
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Decided this week

The council’s register records these decisions between 7 and 9 October, all taken by officers under delegated powers.

Refused

  • Two self-build houses behind Glebe Way, West Wickham. “Construction of 2x two storey detached self-build/custom build dwellings with associated access road/car parking refuse storage” on land to the rear of 76 to 96 Glebe Way, refused on 7 October (26/02136/FPA).
  • A four-bedroom house behind Stowe Road, Orpington. Moax Ltd’s application for a “two storey detached 4-bedroom dwelling” on land to the rear of 7 to 17 Stowe Road, refused on 9 October (26/02813/FPA).
  • A new front wall, fence and sliding gate at Tile House, Bickley Park Road, Bickley, refused on 8 October (26/03120/HPA).

Granted

  • Digital advertising screens at six bus shelters. Internally illuminated screens “capable of static and dynamic content display, with automatic rotation of images” at shelters outside 7 and 11 High Street, Bromley, and outside 146, 177, 216 and 328 High Street, Orpington (26/03261/ADV, 26/03262/ADV, 26/03263/ADV, 26/03264/ADV, 26/03265/ADV, 26/03266/ADV).
  • New signs at the Tigers Head, Watts Lane, Chislehurst, including an illuminated post-mounted pictorial sign (26/03003/ADV).
  • A classroom outbuilding at 11 Dunbar Avenue, Beckenham (26/03225/FPA).
  • Window and shopfront works at Chelsea House, 26 Market Square, Bromley (26/03164/FPA).
  • Timber-effect PVCu windows and doors at units 7 to 17, Pump House Close, Beckenham, both the planning and listed building applications (26/02676/FPA, 26/02719/LBC).
  • Nella Ltd’s window alterations at Murray House, Murray Road, Orpington (26/02993/FPA).

Withdrawn

  • Osborne’s lawful development certificate for replacement hardstanding at the former London Electricity Board depot, Churchfields Road, Beckenham (25/01827/ELUD).

The four applications heard by Plans Sub-Committee No. 1 on 8 October, including the Creswell Drive padel centre, had not been recorded as decided on the register by Friday morning.

The full list, by ward

St Mary Cray

Chislehurst

  • 26 Paget Gardens: lawful development certificate to site a mobile home for ancillary use to the house (26/03896/LDC)
  • 17 Old Hill: fell a small self-seeded sycamore in a raised planter (26/03881/TCA)
  • Manor Beech, Manor Park: prune and reduce a hawthorn (26/03868/TCA)
  • Fernhurst, Mead Road: fell a dead willow and dead cherry, reduce an apple (26/03872/TCA)

Shortlands & Park Langley

  • 35 Cumberland Road: lawful development certificate for a single storey rear extension replacing a conservatory (26/03908/LDC)
  • 55 Wickham Way: remove three leylandii (26/03891/TCA)
  • 16 Ravensbourne Avenue: cut back a horse chestnut and a eucalyptus (26/03844/TCA)

Crystal Palace & Anerley

  • Cortland House, Apple Yard, Penge: eight additional flats in an upwards extension (26/03856/FPA)
  • Attic flat, 6 Cintra Park, Anerley: additional opening rooflights front and rear (26/03841/FPA)
  • 15 Madeline Road, Penge: flood risk condition details on permission 22/03824/FULL1 (22/03824/CON)

Petts Wood & Knoll

  • 94 Petts Wood Road: part one/two storey side and rear extension, front porch and rooflights, replacing the garage (26/03912/HPA)
  • 15 Manor Way: side and rear single storey extension with a new front garage (26/03920/HPA)
  • 71 Crest View Drive: non-material amendment to remove an obscure-glazing condition (26/00480/AMD)

West Wickham

  • 32 Hawes Lane: lawful development certificate for a rear infill extension (26/03922/LDC)
  • 46 Ravenswood Avenue: larger home extension notice, 4.95 metres deep (26/03848/NOT)

Kelsey & Eden Park

  • 195 Eden Park Avenue: condition details on permission 21/01234/FULL6 (21/01234/CON)
  • 19 Manor Way, Beckenham: clear a pine over the roof (26/03870/TCA)

Beckenham Town & Copers Cope

  • 7 Freshwood Close: lawful development certificate for a hip to gable loft conversion with rear dormer (26/03894/LDC)
  • 57 Foxgrove Road: larger home extension notice, 5.13 metres deep (26/03845/NOT)

Farnborough & Crofton

  • 58 Maxwell Gardens: larger home extension notice, 6 metres deep (26/03907/NOT)
  • 31 Barkway Drive: lawful development certificate for a rear garden outbuilding (26/03843/LDC)

Bromley Common & Holwood

  • Potters Farm, Turpington Lane: remediation verification reports on permissions 18/04265/RECON and 24/03543/OUT (18/04265/CON7, 24/03543/CON4)

Plaistow

  • 21 Babbacombe Road: two-storey side and single-storey rear extensions, replacing the garage (26/03874/HPA)

Darwin

  • Marston, Stonehouse Road: lawful development certificate for a single storey rear extension (26/03866/LDC)

Chelsfield

  • 1 Steep Close: two storey side extension with solar panels and Juliet balconies (26/03855/HPA)

Orpington

  • 94 Park Avenue: single storey rear extension replacing a conservatory (26/03901/HPA)

What it means for you

  • To comment on Cortland House, Lone Barn Farm or Perry Hall, use the council’s planning register and search the reference. The dates above are the consultation deadlines on the register.
  • Lawful development certificates and prior approval notices are not planning applications. A certificate confirms that work is permitted development; a larger home extension notice lets neighbours object only on amenity grounds. Neither goes through the usual planning balance.
  • The Lone Barn Farm applications are decided on prior approval matters only. If you have concerns about traffic on East Hall Road, noise or flooding, those are the grounds the council can consider.
  • Our planning applications page explains how to search the register and how to object.

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