South London

Bromley planning data

16,886 planning applications from Bromley. Ask questions about them in plain English from ChatGPT or Claude — no coding, about two minutes to set up — or pull them straight into your own software. 10 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

16,886

Applications

274

Enforcement notices

3,371

Appeals

2022–2026

Date range

What Bromley decides

Bromley has approved 77.46% of the 11,195 applications it has decided since January 2023. Across the 225 councils with a comparable caseload the range is 71.37% to 99.14%, so this is below the middle of the pack (89.18%).

77.46%

Approved, of 11,195 decided

Median days to a decision

68.1

Average days

What it mostly decides

The mix of application types Bromley handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	7,312	43.3%
Tree	3,434	20.3%
Certificate	2,105	12.5%
Householder	1,899	11.2%
Full	643	3.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Bromley actually fills in

A "field" is one piece of information on an application — the decision date, the applicant's name, the address. Councils fill these in inconsistently, so this table measures how often Bromley actually provides each one, across all 16,886 records. Anything listed as reliable you can count on; anything lower, check the council's own record before relying on it.

Once this data is connected to ChatGPT or Claude you can just ask "what information does Bromley actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Address `address`	16,886	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	16,886	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	16,886	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	16,886	100.0%
Status `status`	16,886	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	16,886	100.0%
Ward `ward`	16,485	97.6%
Postcode `postcode`	16,223	96.1%
Decision `decision`	15,970	94.6%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	15,852	93.9%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Application type `application_type`	10,425	61.7%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	10,332	61.2%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	10,176	60.3%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	9,750	57.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	9,622	57.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	8,467	50.1%
Standardised type `standard_type`	5,722	33.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,207	30.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Bromley's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

Agent's company Agent's email Agent's phone Appeal decision Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation

Get this data

Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Bromley last year?" or "what's the planning history of this address?" — no coding, about two minutes to set up. Setup guide →

Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=133&limit=5"

Council id for Bromley is 133. Full API reference for developers →

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